alt Hacker NewsThis is why its astonishing to me that AI has passed any legal department. I regularly see AI output large chunks of code that are 100% plagiarised from a project - its often not hard to find the original source by just looking up snippets of it. 100s of lines of code just completely stolen
Ai doesn't actually wash licenses, it literally can't. Companies are just assuming they're above the law
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rjsw • today at 10:59 AM
If the LLM was trained on any GPL licenced code then there is an argument that all output is GPL too, legal departments should be worried.
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thedevilslawyer • today at 7:32 AM
This is oft-repeated but never backed up by evidence. Can you share the snippet that was plagiarized?
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It's not about following the law — it's about avoiding penalties in practice.
Did they get penalised? Is anyone getting penalised? No? Then there's no reason for legal to block it.
And remember when you put the GPL license on a project, that's only worth your willingness to sue anyone who violates, otherwise your project is public domain.