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728 points freetonik | 1 comments | 21 Aug 25 18:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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neilv ◴[21 Aug 25 19:26 UTC] No.44976959[source]▶
There is also IP taint when using "AI". We're just pretending that there's not.

If someone came to you and said "good news: I memorized the code of all the open source projects in this space, and can regurgitate it on command", you would be smart to ban them from working on code at your company.

But with "AI", we make up a bunch of rationalizations. ("I'm doing AI agentic generative AI workflow boilerplate 10x gettin it done AI did I say AI yet!")

And we pretend the person never said that they're just loosely laundering GPL and other code in a way that rightly would be existentially toxic to an IP-based company.

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1. mhh__ ◴[22 Aug 25 02:57 UTC] No.44980599[source]▶
That's not really how LLMs are used, unless we're planning on classing gitignores as IP

LLMs are interesting because they can combine things they learn from multiple projects into a new language that doesn't feature in any of them, and pick up details from your request.

Unless you're schizophrenic enough to insist that you never even see other code it's just not a realistic problem

Honestly I've had big arguments about this IP stuff before and unless you actually have a lawyer specifically go after something or very obviously violate the GPL it's just a tactic for people to slow people they don't like down. People find a way to invent HR departments fractally.