Post #1541234

2026-02-13 08:36 UTC

Sure there will be some border skirmishes where IP owner interests clash, but in the end the law will settle on whatever makes the people who pay the lawmakers happy Instead of trying to read legal precedents like tea leaves, just ask yourself who benefits? Does big tech benefit from the commons being able to legally appropriate their IP because they used AI in its creation? Obviously not So that obviously won't happen

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@nicklockwood@mastodon.social 2026-02-13 09:35

The handwringing about the implications for open source codebases is also especially hilarious I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you, but the answer to the question "does this mean people can now take my MIT-licensed code without attribution if I used a coding assistant?" is that they were already doing that, long before LLMs If you're lucky, that will continue to be the case. If you're unlucky, then everyone will just vibe code their own solutions and your project will die in obscurity

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@matthew@mastodon.me.uk 2026-02-13 10:06

@nicklockwood I wonder if this might scare the big companies though… the kinds of places whose legal teams are terrified of the GPL?

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@astolk@c.im 2026-02-18 21:20

@nicklockwood and as for liability it is probably the other way around, or actually the same. There will probably be no liability for issues caused by errors made by AI.

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