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jgalt212yesterday at 2:44 PM5 repliesview on HN

And there's no proprietary IP in your company's app that you don't mind being sucked up into the training data?


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masomyesterday at 3:22 PM

> there's no proprietary IP in your company's app

For most app that concept is "gone".

People routinely decompile and recompose existing binaries, and if you use "obfuscation" in your app it's still a small bump.

In today's age, IP is no longer a tangible concept that gives any advantages in software. What differentiates two businesses isn't their IP, it's their relationships and their moat.

Most vendors that had protected proprietary IP are now irrelevant within their vertical. What saves them are the protection provided by patents, which is public.

drdexebtjlyesterday at 3:19 PM

Are you saying you don’t trust ZDR claims from inference providers?

They don’t care about your code. There’s more and better data on the public web.

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c16yesterday at 2:57 PM

As other have mentioned, the code isn't the valuable part. But also there are alternatives now to these LLM providers.

exe34yesterday at 2:46 PM

The value of most companies/apps are in the relationship with the customers, so it's the database, not the code.

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kccqzyyesterday at 5:00 PM

Frankly there’s more likely to be proprietary IP in the server side code than in mobile apps.

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