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  1. After the chardet bullshit, I'm seeing a rising trickle of use of the term "clean room re-implementation" referring to "AI" slop output from a prompt to rewrite some open-source code.

    It ain't a clean room rewrite; that has a very specific meaning.

    We need a new term for this kind of LLM-enabled license-washing. Suggestions?

    #AI #LLM #GenAI #slop #LicenseWashing #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #license #theft #CleanRoom #reimplementation

  2. "AI" LLM-based licensewashing of LGPL code ... by the project maintainer.

    What the hell is wrong with these folks? Token go in, brain fall out.

    Getting a program to "rewrite" your code doesn't nullify the copyright ownership or license terms of everything that went before it. You need a clean-room reimplementation from a bare spec for that, and LLMs *by definition* can't do that.

    github.com/chardet/chardet/rel

    #FFS.

    #AI #LLM #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #license #licensing #LGPL #GPL #CleanRoom #reimplementation

  3. "AI" LLM-based licensewashing of LGPL code ... by the project maintainer.

    What the hell is wrong with these folks? Token go in, brain fall out.

    Getting a program to "rewrite" your code doesn't nullify the copyright ownership or license terms of everything that went before it. You need a clean-room reimplementation from a bare spec for that, and LLMs *by definition* can't do that.

    github.com/chardet/chardet/rel

    #FFS.

    #AI #LLM #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #license #licensing #LGPL #GPL #CleanRoom #reimplementation

  4. "AI" LLM-based licensewashing of LGPL code ... by the project maintainer.

    What the hell is wrong with these folks? Token go in, brain fall out.

    Getting a program to "rewrite" your code doesn't nullify the copyright ownership or license terms of everything that went before it. You need a clean-room reimplementation from a bare spec for that, and LLMs *by definition* can't do that.

    github.com/chardet/chardet/rel

    #FFS.

    #AI #LLM #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #license #licensing #LGPL #GPL #CleanRoom #reimplementation

  5. "AI" LLM-based licensewashing of LGPL code ... by the project maintainer.

    What the hell is wrong with these folks? Token go in, brain fall out.

    Getting a program to "rewrite" your code doesn't nullify the copyright ownership or license terms of everything that went before it. You need a clean-room reimplementation from a bare spec for that, and LLMs *by definition* can't do that.

    github.com/chardet/chardet/rel

    #FFS.

    #AI #LLM #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #license #licensing #LGPL #GPL #CleanRoom #reimplementation

  6. "AI" LLM-based licensewashing of LGPL code ... by the project maintainer.

    What the hell is wrong with these folks? Token go in, brain fall out.

    Getting a program to "rewrite" your code doesn't nullify the copyright ownership or license terms of everything that went before it. You need a clean-room reimplementation from a bare spec for that, and LLMs *by definition* can't do that.

    github.com/chardet/chardet/rel

    #FFS.

    #AI #LLM #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #license #licensing #LGPL #GPL #CleanRoom #reimplementation