Mastodawn

It's "fair use" to read, analyse and understand code. So no, there's no difference between what an LLM is doing and what a human brain is doing when it comes to reading and analysing an open source project.

So what Cloudflare is doing here is not wrong. Sure, it's a little bit of a "fuck you" to Vercel but they're well within their rights to create a derivative work. They get a little bit of a leg up because the Vercel provided unit tests to validate against.

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John Hardy

re: Cloudflare vibe heist

A human reading and producing a derivative work which they then licence as open source and what an LLM is doing is different in the sense that an LLM is not a human and therefore cannot be a copyrighted "author"

If there's no human author, there's no copyright and if there's no copyright then there's no open source licence. Instead the derived work is automatically deemed to be public domain.

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