Mastodawn

This case shows how Open Source will die. With anyone just being able to pipe existing code and tests through an LLM and claiming that to be "clean room" (which is hogwash) no licensing can protect your work from being accumulated and monetized by anyone. The commons are actively being shredded in front of our eyes.

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/pull/322

chardet 7.0: ground-up MIT-licensed rewrite by dan-blanchard · Pull Request #322 · chardet/chardet

Summary This PR is for a ground-up, MIT-licensed rewrite of chardet. It maintains API compatibility with chardet 5.x and 6.x, but with 27x improvements to detection speed, and highly accurate suppo...

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derptron Mar 5

@tante This code actually is in the public domain now, if it was ever legal to begin with.

The MIT license is just some stupid decoration the user of the AI (or the AI itself) decided to stick on the uncopywritable output the AI produced.

In the USA anyway. Until an act of congress. I actually expect it to be pretty fast.

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Ray McCarthy Mar 5

@crazyeddie @tante
Anything produced by AI is PD: Can't be copyrighted. Seems to be the recent USA supreme court decision?

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derptron Mar 5

@raymaccarthy @tante Yep.

I do expect it to get changed really fast by congress. Congress only appears to be in deadlock. They'll have no problem uniting to fix this. For now though the result seems to be that the output of AI can't be copyrighted and it'll take an act of congress to change that. I don't think even an EO can change this, though won't stop him from trying nor from SCROTUS to just turn around and say, yep...here's the spaghetti wordsmithing that says he can.

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Tiota Sram Mar 5

@crazyeddie @raymaccarthy @tante the decision isn't that simple. Works produced by a human with the "help" of AI are still copyrightable, which the author here claims is the case. What exact degree of human vs AI involvement is the line between copyrightable and not is an interesting and unsettled question, but it's not at all clear that the human involvement here doesn't meet that bar.

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Ray McCarthy

@tiotasram @crazyeddie @tante
Maybe, and it depends on country and courts.

It's stupid.