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Comment by doener | original | All AI-generated code should be Open Source
[−]doener · 2026-11-15 Sun 15:41 UTC · link
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how LLMs have essentially made all code open source in a strange and very capitalist way: They’ve appropriated our human work—without regard for any licenses—by force and without any compensation to the authors, and are now selling the code back to anyone who’s willing to pay for it.

But yeah, aside from that, I’m also releasing all my Vibe Coding games under the MIT license: https://github.com/retrogames23/

[−]singpolyma3 · 2026-11-15 Sun 16:12 UTC · link
Are they selling it back? All the best models are free downloads. At most you're paying for compute.