Linux

I've come for my daily dose of corporate wolf in sheep's clothing marketing. Was not upset.

My prophecy is that open source world is going to have three kinds of projects:

1. Projects that use LLM

2. Projects that bite the dust

3. Amazing artisan art projects that are absolutely beautiful but ultimately not very significant

I gotta admit KDE’s stance on this frustrates me a lot.

On the flip side… I am also fully aware that policies of prohibition, in the broadest sense, tend to not be terribly successful, and I wouldn’t be shocked if some contributors simply excise the “co-authored by ” from the commit messages with a simple pre-push hook or something like that on projects that explicitly prohibit LLM/codegen usage.

i think the copyright question is still unanswered: it could turn out that any LLM-generated code is a copyright violation by definition unless trained exclusively on a clean, legitimately-obtained dataset (which few of the major models are).

Will projects that allow LLM contributions have to roll back years of progress when the other shoe finally drops? Seems like a huge risk, especially for FOSS and copyleft. I think disallowing LLM-written contributions until this is all sorted out in the courts is the pragmatic move from a legal perspective.