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AI Code is Hollowing Out Open Source, and Maintainers are Looking the Other Way (www.quippd.com)
submitted 4 days ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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TL;DR: The advent of AI based, LLM coding applications like Anthropic’s Claude and ChatGPT have prompted maintainers to experiment with integrating LLM contributions into open source codebases.

This is a fast path to open source irrelevancy, since the US copyright office has deemed LLM outputs to be uncopyrightable. This means that as more uncopyrightable LLM outputs are integrated into nominally open source codebases, value leaks out of the project, since the open source licences are not operative on public domain code.

That means that the public domain, AI generated code can be reused without attribution, and in the case of copyleft licences - can even be used in closed source projects.

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[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago

Can I legally reverse engineer AI generated software?

If you have the source, why would you need to?

Can you even put terms and conditions on this supposed public domain copyright free compiled software product?

You can put terms on anything, but you can't protect the underlying asset if someone breaks your terms. Think of the code produced by Grsecruity that they put behind a paywall -- people were free to release the code (since it was licensed as open source as a derivative work), but obviously Grsecruity was able to discontinue their agreement with their clients who would do so.

Is the compiled version even different than the raw AI generated source code in its ability to be licensed?

People aren't generally licensing compiled binaries as open source, since you can't produce derivative works from them. But I think that if there is no copyright protection for the work, compiling it doesn't change the copyrightability. Curious what you think.

What rights does one have to AI generated code? Be it compiled or source. It’s surely not just communal.

Why is that surely the case? It is public domain - that is the most "communal" you can get for copyright.