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Malus, which is a piece of "satire" but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell, redistribute, etc. the software without crediting the original developers. But I have a hard time with the "clean room" argument since the LLM doing the behind-the-scenes work has already ingested the entire corpus of open source software -- and somehow the output of the LLMs isn't considered a derivative work.

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[-] inari@piefed.zip 76 points 1 week ago

Also means you can feed leaked proprietary code to it and get open sourced versions

[-] idriss@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

came here to say exactly THIS

Now you get pissed at your current boss? just publish an open source version of that

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