alt Hacker News> Pre-LLM world one would at least have had to search for this information, find the site, understand the license and acknowledge who the author is. Post LLM the tool will just blatantly plagiarize someone else work which you can then sign off on as your own
These don't contradict each other though, you could "blatantly plagiarize someone else work" before as well. LLMs just add another layer in between.
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ozim • yesterday at 12:00 PM
Biggest problem is that AI companies are middlemen profiting from theft.
If you steal once or twice that’s bad and that’s on you maybe you will get away with it maybe not.
If you make it on scale and take cut from distribution of stolen goods that’s where normally you have doors kicked out at 6am.
Copyright violation would happen before LLMs yes, but it would have to be done by a person who either didn’t understand copyright (which is not a valid defence in court), or intentionally chose to ignore it.
With LLMs, future generations are growing up with being handed code that may or not be a verbatim copy of something that someone else originally wrote with specific licensing terms, but with no mention of any license terms or origin being provided by the LLM.
It remains to be seen if there will be any lawsuits in the future specifically about source code that is substantially copied from someone else indirectly via LLM use. In any case I doubt that even if such lawsuits happen they will help small developers writing open source. It would probably be one of the big tech companies suing other companies or persons and any money resulting from such a lawsuit would go to the big tech company suing.
IANAL, TINLA.