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As much as I wish this was true, I don't really think it is.

I think, to punish Micro$lop for its collaboration with fascists and its monopolistic behavior, the whole Windows codebase should be made public domain.

This whole post has a strong 'Sovereign Citizen' vibe.

That's not even remotely true....

Anything built by AI/LLMs should be FOSS by law. Oh I dream of the day.

That sounds like complete bullshit to me. Even if the logic is sound, which I seriously doubt, if you use someone's code and you claim their license isn't valid because some part of the codebase is AI generated, I'm pretty sure you'll have to prove that. Good luck.

Aren't you all forgetting the core meaning of open source? The source code is not openly accessible, thus it can't be FOSS or even OSS

This just means microslop can't enforce their licenses, making it legal to pirate that shit

Stallman: "Oh man, not like this."

Counterpoint: how do you even prove that any part of the code was AI generated.

Also, i made a script years ago that algorithmically generates python code from user input. Is it now considered AI-generated too?

This reminds me of that scene in Breaking Bad where the two morons were talking about how if you ask an undercover cop if they're cop they legally have to tell you the truth

By that same logic LLMs themselves (by now some AI bro had to vibe code something there) & their trained datapoints (which were on stolen data anyway) should be public domain.

What revolutionary force can legislate and enforce this?? Pls!?

how can you tell if it's AI generated? you can't

That's not what that research document says. Pretty early on it talks about rote mechanical processes with no human input. By the logic they employ there's no difference between LLM code and a photographer using Photoshop.

So by that reasoning all Microsoft software is open source

Not that we'd want it, it's horrendously bad, but still

Oh darn, our CEO told us to use LLMs to write all this code, and now the good parts might be used for something that helps people. Not our copyrights!

How the hell did he arrive at the conclusion there was some sort of one-drop rule for non-protected works.

Just because the registration is blocked if you don't specify which part is the result of human creativity, doesn't mean the copyright on the part that is the result of human creativity is forfeit.

Copyright exists even before registration, registration just makes it easier to enforce. And nobody says you can't just properly refile for registration of the part that is the result of human creativity.

According to this guy...

That's terrible news. There's no way I want my code to be open source. Then other people would see just how much spaghetti you can have in a codebase and still have it run.

Public domain ≠ FOSS

Windows is not even source-available. Windows XP is source-unintentionally-available thanks to a leak but there's no AI loophole in that.

As it should. All the idiots calling themselves programmers, because they tell crappy chatbot what to write, based on stolen knowledge. What warms my heart a little is the fact that I poisoned everything I ever wrote on StackOverflow just enough to screw with AI slopbots. I hope I contributed my grain of sand into making this shit little worse.

windows engineers have probably been copying snippets from stackoverflow for decades, which may have been copied from the kernel or some other copyleft product

Not how copyright works. Adding something with creative height together with something without leaves the combined work with ownership only of the part with creative height with the rest unprotected.

(bots can not achieve creative height by definition in law)

The the greatest intellectual property theft and laundering scheme in human history