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If it regurgitates proprietary code the model should not have had access to for training data... well...
That street goes both ways, there's more GPLed code in the training corpus than there is leaked proprietary code.
Unironically a AI's biggest win. Absolutely fair criticism on art and weak imitations of human creativity, but code is just math with syntactic sugar. "Owning" algorithms and hiding implementations is such an absurd concept.
I often wonder how much better and more accessible software would be if everyone wasn't reinventing nearly every wheel all the time. What if every phone could copy-paste an Airdrop implementation? What if printers just worked? What if you could put adblockers on any device? What if every online game could be self hosted and modded? AI is (for the moment) giving an approximation of that timeline and I'm here for it.
I'm incredibly against the big LLM SaaS providers and material waste besides. Anyway I don't have a crystal ball and I'm highly sceptical that this technology will work out for average people, but it sure would be interesting if it somehow lead to less corporate control and cultural enclosure rather than how it seems to be going right now.
But what about the poor corporations making money off those games that already fired all the devs that made it after overworking them?
That's apple's decision, one of many to force their users to only get their devices, similarly not being able to host your own game servers benefits the publishers/ devs. (Edit for clarity: by this I mean that this state of things isn't caused by unavailability of open source solutions but rather by corporate greed.)
Not any different from protecting one's art creations. You spend a bunch of time learning how to code and are doing it for a living so you don't want others/ competition to take it and sell as their own. Not sure what's hard to understand.
Most programmers earn a wage, not the full value of their labor.
That's true of course. And it's true for a lot of people in other areas as well. In vacuum I'm all for open source software, in fact I would like it a lot if everything was open. But reality is that as a developer in a smaller software company we'd be out of our jobs immediately as other, larger companies would take everything that's worth taking and use their larger budgets to out advertise their copy.