> The licenses are completely ignored.

Where and when? In cases where LLM coding assistants reproduce copyleft code in someone's work assignment? The responsibility in those would be on the user, not on AI.

It seems to be a common view on HN that licenses and conditional access to websites should be ignored (i.e. WRT ad-blockers), but also that licenses on Open-Source Software repositories should be respected (i.e. WRT LLM training). I believe that holding these contradictory views is common, but the conflict would need to be resolved to come to a conclusion on how to proceed with LLM training.

That's because licenses are an abstract complexity tacked on to a simple material reality in order "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts".

Just like many cultural rules, they keep growing in complexity until they reach a phase change where they become ignored because they have become too complicated.