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Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup | TechCrunch

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Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup | TechCrunch

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db0 ( db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) Banned from community to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 years ago
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A Y Combinator startup named PearAI launched with a tweet thread and YouTube video on Saturday and caused an immediate backlash.
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  • raoul ( raoul@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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    [He cloned] another AI editor … covered under the Apache open source license [and] slapped its own made-up closed license … which Pan admitted was written by ChatGPT.

    Who gives a shit, rigth?

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      Apache explicitly allows this. I don’t get why OSI bros are endlessly surprised by this.

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        They apparently copied without attribution in a manner that was a violation? I’m still looking for precise wording of the PEL.

        It’s very hard to violate the Apache license, but these are the sort of bozos who could manage it.

        EDIT: Here is the PEL. It lacks the attribution requirements of section 4 of the Apache Licence 2.0. So yeah, they managed it.

        This is a small technical violation that’s easily remedied, but I understand that’s what got people pissed off.

      • Soyweiser ( Soyweiser@awful.systems ) 
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        I’m a little bit in the camp of ‘it might be legal, but that doesn’t mean it is ok’. So I get why people are annoyed. Also copying a whole project and then slamming a different license on it and going ‘jobs done’ very much fits the promptfondler vibe, so im not mad, more of a ‘lol, of course they did’ thing. But that is me.

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          It’s a little illegal and a lot christ what assholes

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      The way he admitted it was hilarious too

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    The license stuff is whatever, but Imagine seeing this sort of sloppiness in the revision history and thinking “Yeah these guys seem legit let’s give them a million dollars!” We are in such a bubble.

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      That’s amazing. Do you think they crtl-f’d the name changes or ChatGPT’d them?

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        founder mode, mate

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          I endorse this usage, and am now 100% in favour of popularising “founder mode” as a term if we do this

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    That startup founder. Is he okay?

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    pivot to AI here

    turns out Continue was less than happy with their own backer YC paying another company to take credit for their work

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