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Comment by lelanthran | original | All AI-generated code should be Open Source
[−]lelanthran · 2026-11-15 Sun 18:35 UTC · link
> I have some projects I've been working on over a year. Sitting down working making design decisions. Research. Using ai doesn't mean I did no work. It doesn't matter if the ai was trained. I still did work.

> I don't understand this view point. Using ai and making high quality stuff is not pushing a button. Its hard. It takes real effort and diligence. And you have to pay actual money out of pocket to deliver it.

You seem to believe that because you put months of work into this, you should have rights over the result, right?

But once you release, anyone can spend a few dozens of dollars and replicate it. Do they get the same rights over the clone that you got over your product, even though you potentially spent months coming up with it and they cloned it in a day?

There's really only two answers to this - either you agree that they should get the same rights over the clone that you got over your product, or you don't agree that they should have the same rights over their clone that you have over your product.

In either case, you are not better off:

1. If they get the same rights over the clone that you get on your product, you can't really stop people cloning your stuff, adding a feature or two, removing another feature or two, and then release something better than you for 1/10th of the cost of production.

2. If they don't get the same rights as you did because they used your product as training material for a clone, then wtf do you get any rights at all, after using millions of other people's products as training material?

I don't see any scenario where there is an outcome beneficial to you. Do you?