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This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright (www.404media.co)

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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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[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 days ago

Your first example isn't even code, and in your second if the "software" was remotely well architectured its configuration (not code) is what would need to be kept secret. You're also very rude!