I had a friend of mine ask me today how he could protect his personal website which he completely let AI build, including all the text, from being copied by others. I rolled my eyes so hard I can still feel it. Told him not to worry about it.
The absolute irony of wanting to copyright code using copyright-infringing LLMs.
The short answer: Legally, maybe. Ethically, no.
I don’t know, Unlicense is still an OSS license, and imo that’s what vibe code should mostly be.
Ethically, no.
Sam Altman: Hold my beer.
It’s absolutely ethical to ignore copyrights.
my take is that either it IS copyrightable and thus every single fucking piece of LLM-written code is a copyright violation of biblical proportions (because it’s trained on everything), or it isn’t copyrightable and thus effectively unusable for open source things
