2026-03-27 15:54 UTC
I'm so appreciative of @bengl right now. Their PR that proposes adding policy on LLM-generated contributions is receiving lots of feedback from other project maintainers and has helped me uncover additional concerns about LLM: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/62447
Like, I haven't thought until yesterday evening that LLM written code is completely antithetical to MIT-license under which Node.js is written. LLMs are designed to destroy attribution, but MIT license is built on top of it.
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@Fishrock@mastodon.social 2026-03-27 16:08
@indutny @bengl as per current US court ruling on visual art, yes LLM code is probably non-licensable
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@ramsey@phpc.social 2026-03-27 16:42
@indutny @janl @bengl YES!!! This is entirely the reason why training on open source software is antithetical to the open source ethos. Pretty much the only real currency we have in open source is attribution. When you take away the attribution, open source dies. This isn’t to say that open source developers all do it for recognition. Rather, most do it out of necessity—they needed a thing, and they chose to share that thing. What do LLMs do to that? Will folks stop sharing?