- cross-posted to:
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- foss@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- news
- foss@beehaw.org
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.


AI doesn’t exist.
LLMs have vanishingly narrow legitimate justifiable use cases.
Copyright is an intrinsically hostile environment within which to conduct collaborative activities.