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by Copyrightest 6mo ago
NetBSD has a very reasonable stance: If you commit code that was not written by yourself, double check that the license on that code permits import into the NetBSD source repository, and permits free distribution. Check with the author(
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by Copyrightest 6mo ago
The most salient difference is that it's impossible to tell if an LLM is plagiarizing, whereas Xeroxing something implies specific intent to copy. It makes no sense to push liability onto LLM users.
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by Copyrightest 6mo ago
The big difference between people reading code and LLMs reading code is that people have legal liability and LLMs do not. You can't sue an LLM for copyright infringement, and it's almost impossible for users to tell when it happen
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by Copyrightest 6mo ago
One problem with this is that there isn't really a "current prompt" that completely describes the current source code; each source file is accompanied by a full chat log, including false starts and misunderstandings. It'
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by Copyrightest 6mo ago
I am a jazz guitarist and am sympathetic to this comment: the way I tune my guitar these days is hitting an E tuning fork, playing a particular E7 chord, and deciding if it sounds good: e —0– B —0– G —7– D —6– A —7– E —0– L
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by Copyrightest 7mo ago
I think the most salient point about Factorio here is that its CPU-side native core was largely hammered out by 2018, most of the development since then has been in Lua or GPU-side. The devs could be quite confident their code didn't h
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by Copyrightest 7mo ago
I imagine making a buggy and unmaintainable version could be done quickly, sure, if you don't mind your documents being killed by a thousand small typesetting cuts. TeX is incredibly complicated for good reasons, people should read Knu
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by Copyrightest 7mo ago
As another commenter points out, this sort of exists in the broader sense of "interactive fiction." There's lots of options for scaffolding an LLM into something like a storytelling toy. But I truly believe an AI-generated eq
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by Copyrightest 7mo ago
FWIW it's not just about money, it's about controlling creative work. E.g. Radiohead really does not want ICE to use their music for fascist propaganda, at any cost. I really don't like how the discussion on HN always ignores