Post #1182403

2026-04-16 01:40 UTC

i've been feeling like ai techbros have been given carte blanche to launder the licenses off all the world's code, and maybe this means that copyleft -- the only tool i know of that attempts to protect open source -- is obsolete and useless now. copyleft only functions when copyright does so to see the only good organization that defends copyleft itself say, "let's welcome people who patronize and defend ai companies?" wow that feels super bad Eternal November

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@pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website 2026-04-16 02:02

i won't go on too long about this, lest i be accused of "not reading until the end," and i'll take my comments to their synchronous, scheduled, discussion time, if i can find the time to do so, i guess, but i disagree with the core analogy of the post, that students without a lot of experience newly joining the community of leet haxors in 1993 and every september onward are comparable in any way to people who have embraced ai tools while ignoring all the damage that comes of it

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@jamey@toot.cat 2026-04-16 01:57

@pho4cexa I'm not certain SFC is the only good organization that defends copyleft but otherwise I'm there with you

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@technomancy@hey.hagelb.org 2026-04-16 01:58

@pho4cexa wow, what the fuck absolutely rancid vibes, expected better from them

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@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizza 2026-04-16 05:42

@pho4cexa yeah, that was a very depressing read. I don't understand how anyone who loves and uses free software could look at llm generated/assisted code going into free software projects without massive discomfort. It's been shocking just how quickly that assumption was proven wrong. It's literally everywhere, and that happened seemingly overnight. But then to read this? Gross.

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