The author could bring the company to court for license infringement, it's an easy case, they (the original author) could easily bring home some of those sweet sweet YC vc money.
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#322We are in a crisis of morals. There has always been trashy people but since 2020 it feels like a lack of morals is rewarded more than ever.
A natural consequence of a system that promotes radical individuality, false scarcity, fear of missing out, greed, and violence. Win at all costs.
'Move fast and break things', there is not much left unbroken.
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#323This was of course a calculated move. The founders of Glass are not that stupid. They knew the original author would complain in the loudest way possible and cause a viral outrage, which would give them a ton of eyeballs and exposure.
Engagement hacks, outrage, eyeballs, distribution, attention at all cost. Welcome to tech in 2025.
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Doesn't matter at all according to who?
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#325Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I have yet to hear a convincing case for why what the LLM vendors did/do is different than what humans do to learn and become proficient in producing their own work. Humans don't read other codebases en masse. Hell, I haven't read the entirety of our own codebase. I learned by doing, from books (that I paid for or legally borrowed), and yes, by looking at a small amount of other people's code (permitted by the resp…
Plus, humans do not remember any code base they read verbatim indefinitely, strip its license and mix into any codebase regardless of its license. Moreover humans learn and evolve their knowledge from other experiences other than books and others’ code. As you said LLMs just remix something semi randomly according to a weighted graph with no underlying knowledge or understanding whatsoever.
Exactly. I could from memory recite the main story beats of The Lord of the Rings, and probably even get to the detail of all major plot points and some minor ones, and maybe even some famous phrases.
An LLM unburdened by restraint could like produce page upon page of story nearly identical to the original.
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#326Isn't this the company/founders whose whole sales pitch is about cheating/deceiving others? I guess I am not that surprised then.
Is there a way to validate this?
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#327Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
#328To a casual outside observer the quality of the companies YC invests in seems to have absolutely cratered. Have they just given up on vetting and switched to a throw money at everything approach?
Right now YC really only has one bet, an all-in on AI.
Any company that props up their AI bet is the most valuable to them now, even if it provides no real value for users...
Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
#329We are in a crisis of morals. There has always been trashy people but since 2020 it feels like a lack of morals is rewarded more than ever.
The highest jobs require these days a proven track-record of corruption. You can‘t blame young startups wanting to take the first step on that ladder. At the end of the day we are living in a merdeitocracy.
> merdeitocracy
Not sure if typo or intentional (likely?), but that's an amazing new word.
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#330Not really on topic, but since service of startup is free and it has investment - what is monetization model here?