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blagie • last Sunday at 5:19 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

LLM-written clones of free software into proprietary seem to be a growing trend now.

With manim, it's probably legal (I think MIT license?), but in general, it makes the world a worse place.

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pishpash • last Sunday at 5:57 AM

It's the AI frontier ethos. "I get mine." That's the culture now.

Speaking of which, it happened before, too, in the 1970's with personal computer software.

sinaatalay • last Sunday at 5:22 AM

All we want to do is innovate. We simply can't open source this because we're rewriting and rebuilding it every day.

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