Mastodawn

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@theTangentSpace/116202005587236047

A story of GenAI-assisted theft, that is honest and clear about the nature of what's being stolen: "It would be fine if people were building their own riffs on WigglyPaint’s ideas; they’re just ideas. It would be easy to create something new from these ideas, but the thieves can’t be bothered to add even the tiniest creative spark of their own."

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Jordan B. L. Smith

I clicked the story expecting to see theft of *code* front and centre, but the code is open source anyway. It's lamer than that: a very familiar grift involving SEO and domain imitation. OSS has always been vulnerable to attacks like this, but from the point of view of the grifters, GenAI is essential to making it feasible to copy-with-variation at this scale.