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The other obsolete expectation is that one's public code would be used and read by other humans and that attribution was preserved. The vast corpus of code used as training data for commercial LLMs was never intended to be used in that manner. No explicit permission was granted to strip the license and authorship of all that code - it was effectively plagiarized by sampling. How much money did Clyde Stubblefield get from all the songs that sampled Funky Drummer? How much money did Gregory Coleman from The Winstons get from all the songs that sampled his drum break from their 1969 track "Amen, Brother"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break Hint: Coleman died homeless and destitute in 2006. When hip-hop was a niche genre of primarily Black artists sampling other Black artists early on, maybe "sample culture" and the same sort of attribution stripping and plagiarism-by-sampling was acceptable. Once the big money started rolling in it wasn't. People like Richard Spencer, Gregory Coleman, and Clyde Stubblefield never got their due and let's not underemphasize this was yet another instance of Black artists being screwed over by White corporations. White people _really_ don't like it when they get treated like Black people have been treated like forever. I can't be upset about AI stripping attribution and stealing code by sampling and remixing without clearly and unambiguously showing the parallels to Black musicians 4 decades ago. Let's just pause and reflect on that for a moment.