Copyrightability of LLM-generated code: Can we license “vibe code” into Free Software? - FSFE
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The use of large language models (“LLMs”) has exploded in recent years, including in the generation of source code. But even as their usage gains popularit...
    • hexagonwin@lemmy.today
      9·
      27 days ago

      tbh imo it might be a good thing if we can take some proprietary blob, let an LLM reverse engineer and “reimplement” the original code and make that be free software. though i highly doubt that would be the case because it doesn’t benefit corporate asshats.

      • NightFantom@slrpnk.net
        5·
        27 days ago

        Yeah that would also mean they can take “viral” open source software that is currently hard to use in proprietary software because it requires everything that’s built on top of it to copy the licence, and instead “rewrite” it and bypass that licence.

        So if this works one way, it’ll also work the other, and that will probably massively benefit the corporate asshats. I’m not a fan of copyright, but it’s a necessary evil to protect our freedom from big corpo.