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Comment by iaaan | original | All AI-generated code should be Open Source
[−]iaaan · 2026-11-15 Sun 17:48 UTC · link
lolwhat. You're effectively just saying "there are bad actors who will flagrantly disrespect your code license and therefore the law, duh. So y are u mad?"

People who care about being respected on the most basic level are not going to stick around in a community that disrespects them. I'm not the person you were responding to, but I am mad because the social contract (not to mention the legal contract) of open source has basically been destroyed, and a lot of people have poured a large portion of their life into that community based in part on the assumption of that contract being upheld. Imagine a social contract that is important to you being violated to such a degree that you cannot go back to that society.