Post #2796018
2026-03-08 00:35 UTC
@soph@grrl.me
The funniest outcome for sure is that the resulting ruling would make all software defacto illegal.
"To the maintainers of this open-source project. We are the big co legal department. We would like to get your written sign-off that no 'AI assistive tooling' has ever been used in this project. It is important for our supply chain. We expect a reply within 5 days."
If anything AI has touched becomes devoid of legal protections, then that would probably implode the tech sector overnight.
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@soph@grrl.me 2026-03-08 00:43
@yosh@toot.yosh.is I think you're maybe saying something a bit more grandiose than what I'm trying to get at, which is around the code being generated itself by AI. Here I'm not talking like autogenerated version bumps, but really truly stuff trained on unknown IP. If some projects need to rollback and try again, I don't think that would be devastating. Sure, newer projects might suffer, but there was plenty of waste when the hype was around stuff like blockchain, too.