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[-] meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 21 hours ago

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

[-] the_artic_one@programming.dev 5 points 16 hours ago

It's just the code that's not under copyright, so if someone leaked it you could legally copy and distribute any parts which are AI generated but it wouldn't invalidate copyright on the official binaries.

If all the code were AI generated (or enough of it to be able to fill in the blanks), you might be able to make a case that it's legal to build and distribute binaries, but why would you bother distributing that slop?

[-] m0stlyharmless@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago

Even if it were leaked, it would still likely be very difficult to prove that any one component was machine generated from a system trained on publicly accessible code.

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