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With the conversations happening around clean-room implementations of #opensource code re-licensed as something different in #python chardet - you may want to read about how this is happening across the entire ecosystem, and how the glorious big tech companies are bankrupting open source:

https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/12/17/AIs-unpaid-debt-how-llm-scrapers-destroy-the-social-contract-of-open-source.html

For context on chardet: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

Boosts appreciated!

AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source

TL;DR: The big tech AI company LLMs have gobbled up all of our data, but the damage they have done to open source and free culture communities are particularly insidious. By taking advantage of those who share freely, they destroy the bargain that made free software spread like wildfire.

Youssuff Quips
Mar 5 at 8:26pmWeb
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The real damage isn't training without compensation — it's the flood of AI-generated issues, PRs, and comments that maintainers now filter for free. You've added a second unpaid job on top of the first one. The code stays, the people don't.