alt Hacker News> Do anti-LLM types expect to be vindicated in an orgy of copyright lawsuits that resets the industry back to 2022? What do people pushing expect to accomplish?
You weren’t kidding, huh.
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Is it "anti-LLM" or is it anti "here's some code I don't understand that a machine generated for me kthxbye"? Code is not just code, it's also liability and trust.
The GCC stance seems reasonable to me, where do we think the rage is coming from in comments like this?
Off the cuff, I would be surprised if the GNU project embraced AI, so I'm confused that people think so strongly otherwise.
He's correct though. You would need 3 extremely low probability events to all occur simultaneously for the concern to actually manifest.
1) Courts reverse their previous decisions and declare LLM generated code as belonging to LLM labs.
2) LLM labs decide to assert their copyright and sue open source projects.
3) They are able to prove that the code was generated by an LLM and not just any LLM but their LLM.
Isn't that a possibility? Is anyone expecting case law to evolve and adapt instantly? To say nothing of new laws.
You are absolutely right.
I like the top reply:
> "The true purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill without allowing skill to access wealth."