> LLMs are harmful to the free software ecosystem as a whole, as their main use-case in software is to appropriate free software regardless of license and regurgitate it new new projects without any respect for the copyright, provenance, or obligations of the source material. This is a new one. "Main use" indeed!
Well, yes -- obviously; it takes a huge amount of training data and generates new projects. I guess you could argue that it's not just for new projects -- it's used for old projects too?
And in the case it is, a lot of open source projects are mostly ripoffs of commercial projects, which are ripoffs of older (now non-existent) commercial projects. It's ripoffs all the way down.
But like.. the idea that it's "most" of the usage is absolutely absurd on its face.