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EditorDavid @ Slashdot 3 place · today 16:34 EDT

Does Generative AI Threaten the Open Source Ecosystem?

"Snippets of proprietary or copyleft reciprocal code can enter AI-generated outputs, contaminating codebases with material that developers can't realistically audit or license properly."


That's the warning from Sean O'Brien, who founded the Yale Privacy Lab at Yale Law School. ZDNet reports:



Open software has always counted on its code being regularly replenished. As part of the process of using it, users modify it to improve it. They add features and help to guarantee usability across generations of.

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