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Why genAI means the end of copyright for software and the re-invention of open source

Most of the discussions about the impact of the latest generative AI systems on copyright have centred on text, images and video. That’s no surprise, since writers, artists and film-makers feel very strongly about their creations, and members of the public can relate easily to the issues that AI raises for this kind of creativity. But there’s another creative domain that has been massively […]

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Mar 25 at 1:00pmWeb
Show threadSamuelJohnson1d ago
@walledculture.org Too much pop-up BS; didn't read
Show threadMichael ☕️1d ago

@samueljohnson @walledculture.org
Try @Vivaldi , no pop-ups.

It's an interesting read for anyone in the software industry.

Show threadSamuelJohnson18h ago
@mcpinson @walledculture.org @Vivaldi Vivaldi is my default browser. walledculture engaging in monetisation of readers is every bit as egregious as the likes of Facebook, Google etc.
Show thread🧊 freezr 🥶1d ago

@walledculture.org

I respectfully disagreed with you vision.

Especially the reference about "chardet", the original author was pretty upset and demanded to respect the original license cause the vibe-coding result was a poor re-implementation using most of the logic of the original software.

About the enthusiasm of AI (vide) coding, this is something imposed not naturally adopted, and the only senior engineers talking good about GenAI are the ones that work for the BigTech that push these technologies, all the others are pretty discontent, some are even creating fake AI commits only to make their employers believing they are reviewing AI generated code..

I do believe that Vibe-Coding will reshape the opensource the bad way: since exposing any code on the wild means training models that constantly dishonored the original licenses, the cool new projects will be again developed in private, and the only opensource code available will be the one AI generated with a slow and steady degrading cause models trained with generative output degrade.

Show threadWalled Culture1d ago
@freezr I can’t judge the quality of the coding, but given the advances here it’s not impossible that genAI will bring improvements. So I think it’s wise to start considering the implications of that, and ways in which it could help not hinder open source progress. We shall see.