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Lemmy may be heading down the path of LLMs
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
Linus Torvalds has the best take regarding using “AI” for software development a documentation.
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Using it in a staging environment should be perfectly acceptable usage, review it and adjust it before introducing it on a production build, treat is like a tool and not a one-click magic code machine.
That doesn't take into account the extensively researched plagiarism concerns. It's not just that LLMs make low quality slop but that some of us think the GPL won't work if you can train LLMs on GPL, then have it spit out GPL snippets un-GPL'ed.
Some people literally un-GPL projects via AI in one go. While that's the egregious version, any LLM use seems to risk having a similar effect on a smaller scope.
This isn't only a legal question. At least if you think the GPL has societal and moral value.