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matt-plast Wednesday at 10:03 PM1 replyview on HN

I agree, I'm quite curious on what feelings are about still putting it in a public GitHub repo?

AI models will train on your codebase, unethical actors will still take it and not pay. Others can give the .zip to Claude and ask it to reimplement it in a way that isn't license infringement. I think it really turns open source upside down. Is this a risk worth taking or best to just make getting the source something that's a .zip on a website which the models realistically won't train on.


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TeMPOraLlast Thursday at 8:15 AM

Or maybe ask yourself why are you doing open source in the first place?

AI training on your code is success if you care about your code being genuinely helpful to others. It's a problem only if you're trying to make money or personal reputation, and abusing open source as a vector for it.

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