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jonhohle • today at 6:50 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I reached out to both this legal team and SFC about cases where all of the LLMs will license strip open source code. In cases where BSD licensed code was copied into thousands of projects and millions of forks, it appears the training is so embedded that it will produce functions down to the formatting decisions. In the case of `strlcpy`, no human written version looks like the OpenBSD version, but most commercial LLMs will license strip the OpenBSD version when asked to implement. Depending on the context (not trying to trick them, just other programming questions), I’ve had them all produce it without license (100% score in JPlag).


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lilbigdoot • today at 7:00 PM

I keep wondering how this can of worms is going to play out. Right now it doesn't get them into trouble because they're taking from OSS communities, but what happens once one company finds out code they released with a restrictive license got copied verbatim into a closed product? Will they retaliate? Will they decide together to not open pandora's box? I wonder really

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