If you had any doubt that the rise of LLM tools is a threat to F/OSS, even beyond the fact that its trained on it without permission, and is now frequently used to replace it (why import a battle-tested library when you can have an "agent" half-ass it?), people are now using LLMs to create derivative rewrites of open source projects to give them cover for bullshit relicensing attempts.

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

No right to relicense this project · Issue #327 · chardet/chardet

Hi, I'm Mark Pilgrim. You may remember me from such classics as "Dive Into Python" and "Universal Character Encoding Detector." I am the original author of chardet. First off, I would like to thank...

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@baldur been reading through the comments in this thread and thought "wow, what a remarkably bad take". Then I looked at the username and was honestly shocked to see mitsuhiko. I remember him as the smart Python guy from the early 2010s. I wonder what happened 😞

I don't know but I remember having the exact same thought some time before LLMs cropped up.

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