alt Hacker NewsIsn't the point that you might be one of the people who benefits from one of those follow on projects? That is kind of the whole point of open source.
Why are you making your stuff open source in the first place if you don't want other people to build off of it?
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If you don't trust the AI generated code yourself, then you wont benefit from it. And in fact all it does is take resources from the project that you work on, the one that's generating all the value in the first place.
There are strong parallels to the image generation models that generate images in the style of studio ghibli films. Does that benefit studio ghibli? I'd argue not. And if we're not careful, it will to undermine the business model that produced the artwork in the first place (which the AI is not currently capable of doing).
Open source has three main purposes, in decreasing order of importance:
1) Ensuring that there is no malicious code and enabling you to build it yourself.
2) Making modifications for yourself (Stallman's printer is the famous example).
3) Using other people's code in your own projects.
Item 3) is wildly over-propagandized as the sole reason for open source. Hard forks have traditionally led to massive flame wars.
We are now being told by corporations and their "AI" shills that we should diligently publish everything for free so the IP thieves can profit more easily. There is no reason to oblige them. Hiding test suites in order to make translations more difficult is a great first step.
> Why are you making your stuff open source in the first place if you don't want other people to build off of it?
Because I enjoy the craft. I will enjoy it less if I know I'm being ripped off, likely for profit, hence my deliberate choices of licenses, what gets released and what gets siloed.
I'm happy if someone builds off of my work, as long as it's on my own terms.