Post #646799
2026-03-14 15:20 UTC
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@zyd@yap.zyd.lol 2026-03-14 15:24
@rpluim@mastodon.social Dunno but laws can change and they usually benefit holders of capital. Being opposed to LLMs merely on copyright grounds is a weak position I wouldn't want to be standing from. Any strong opposition has to be based primarily on the social element of LLMs.
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@benjamineskola@hachyderm.io 2026-03-14 16:45
@rpluim@mastodon.social @zyd@yap.zyd.lol My understanding is that although that’s true for something completely machine-generated, it doesn’t take much human input to make it copyrightable again. So although a completely vibecoded work probably wouldn’t be copyrightable, an LLM-assisted contribution might well be. And besides, there is nothing against integrating public-domain code into free software as far as I know. It wouldn’t receive copyright protection but would be available to use by anybody. I don’t think this means LLM contributions should be allowed, but I don’t think the copyright argument alone is strong enough to prevent it.