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Should /c/opensource allow AI / slop-coded project posts, or remove them? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 days ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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We've been getting a lot of AI coded submissions recently, as well as lots of reports asking to remove them.

Should we remove these posts, or not?

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[โ€“] Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People against LLM parrot the same arguments again and again that it has simply lost its original meaning.

copyright status is debatable

debatable by who? who is going to settle this debate?, the courts who serve corporate greed?, Legislation made by politicians lobbied by SaaS companies? Anthropic? OpenAi? Microsoft?

The "Copyright is debatable/ its just a plagiarism machine" stance is not the Leftist/ pro FOSS gotcha argument you think it is. The point of the FOSS movement was to have total freedom over software, and that freedom includes the ability to study, learn and use it in ways it was not intended for. To stand as the antitheses of that is make Steve Balmer happy

[โ€“] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

  1. All currently existing LLMs are unethically trained on copyrighted code that is incompatible with GPL licensed projects. LLMs have a 3 to 10% chance to unknowingly reproduce the copyrighted code perfectly, introducing legal plagiarism into an open-source project, which could easily open up the developers to being sued in the future if companies scanned open source repos for copyright violations.

  2. Some European courts have ruled that LLM generated code cannot be copyrighted at all, meaning that it also cannot be legally made GPL, losing the protections from corporate exploration the GPL normally grants. https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260825-01.html