Post #578065
2026-03-07 23:07 UTC
Basically, generative AI is killing open source — between slop contributions overwhelming maintainers, and the increasing feasibility of “clean-rooming” open source software to remove any obligations that private companies might otherwise have towards projects they depend on, and models cleaving traffic away from the documentation sites that get people involved.
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@john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 2026-03-08 07:22
Sleep helped. Also, the FOSDEM link you sent. I was not aware of that was going on.
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@staircase@programming.dev 2026-03-08 19:26
Does this work the other way round? Where open source models can reverse engineer binaries and make free copies?