This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright

https://www.404media.co/this-ai-tool-rips-off-open-source-software-without-violating-copyright/

Malus, which is a piece of "satire" but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell, redistribute, etc. the software without crediting the original developers. But I have a hard time with the "clean room" argument since the LLM doing the behind-the-scenes work has already ingested the entire corpus of open source software -- and somehow the output of the LLMs isn't considered a derivative work.

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onlinepersona@programming.dev · 4 pts · 132d

Eh, and the same can be done to closed-source and copyrighted stuff. It's a double-edged sword.

irq0@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 131d

It's satire