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AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source (www.quippd.com)
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TL;DR: The big tech AI company LLMs have gobbled up all of our data, but the damage they have done to open source and free culture communities are particularly insidious. By taking advantage of those who share freely, they destroy the bargain that made free software spread like wildfire.

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[–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I can read your code, learn from it, and create my own code with the knowledge gained from your code without violating an OSS license.

Why is Clean-room design a thing then?

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  • [–] -2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    create my own code with the knowledge gained from your code

    Not copy your code. Use it to learn what algorithms it uses and ideas on how to implement it.

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