After the chardet bullshit, I'm seeing a rising trickle of use of the term "clean room re-implementation" referring to "AI" slop output from a prompt to rewrite some open-source code.
It ain't a clean room rewrite; that has a very specific meaning.
We need a new term for this kind of LLM-enabled license-washing. Suggestions?
#AI #LLM #GenAI #slop #LicenseWashing #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #license #theft #CleanRoom #reimplementation
Wow. What a self serving and misguided thing to do.
https://github.com/quicklisp/quicklisp-projects/issues/2548
About the best I can say is that if you're looking to learn the meaning of plagiarism, this is a great place to start.
Update, need some new tags:
#copyrightwashing #licensewashing
Add Parkian Company LLC Pure Common Lisp Libraries Please add the following 100 pure Common Lisp libraries from https://github.com/ddisqq/ Library Characteristics License: BSD-3-Clause (all librari...
Read the f-ing room.
Due to power dynamics there is no "open AI". Unlike open source, where a person could still significantly contribute, the required scale and cost of compute puts most AI* development out of reach of most.
So, no. “Just as the CC licenses helped build the open web, we believe CC signals will help shape an open AI ecosystem grounded in reciprocity.”
This is fundamentally different. This is license-washing.
(*LLM)
CC Signals © 2025 by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons (CC) today announces the public kickoff of the CC signals project, a new preference signals framework designed to increase reciprocity and sustain a creative commons in the age of AI. The development of CC signals represents a major step forward…
@randomgeek #Cody uses #Anthropic’s #Claude API or can be configured to prompt #OpenAI instead, as well as use the latter for embeddings: https://docs.sourcegraph.com/cody/faq#what-third-party-cloud-services-does-cody-depend-on-today
I’m glad neither #Sourcegraph nor its third-party #LLMs train on the code you give it: https://docs.sourcegraph.com/cody/faq#does-cody-train-on-my-code
Cody is probably prompting #GPT4 (OpenAI deprecated the API for the #LicenseWashing #Codex model behind #Copilot) based on this #Slack #bot code: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph@e772c7cbd177961cb2f8b02fcb35727158e8edef/-/blob/client/cody-slack/src/services/openai-completions-client.ts?L28
So cool that #GitHub #Copilot provides maintainers of popular #OpenSource repositories free reign to illegally violate their colleagues’ #copyright and #license terms: https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-github-copilot/about-billing-for-github-copilot#:~:text=maintainers%20of%20popular%20open%2Dsource%20repositories
Learn about and follow the class-action #lawsuit against GitHub, #Microsoft, and #OpenAI here: https://githubcopilotlitigation.com
#LicenseWashing #Apache #BSL #Boost #BSD #Eclipse #EPL #GNU #GPL #AGPL #Affero #LGPL #MIT #Mozilla #MPL
@randomgeek @sjn Curtis’ blog mentioned this, but I guess you’re also OK with furthering #Copilot’s #LicenseWashing and #copyright violations? https://GitHubCopilotLitigation.com
(So cool that #GitHub provides significant #OpenSource contributors like @ovid free reign to violate their colleagues’ wishes.)
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