[−]thway15269037 · 2026-10-11 Sun 05:21 UTC ·
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When you copy a file, it's trivially simple to prove it's a copy and not an original work.
How can one prove that X is a copy when none of the source code match original? Clean room re-implementations are not illegal after all, if we go that way (yeah, yeah, I know about clean room argument).
While I personally do not think it would be different, but a lot of LLM folks are, and even some companies (rushing to blatantly clone and de-compile stuff). Kinda strange feeling sitting and looking around in the midst of it, y'know.
Doing a clean room implementation would require you to build a test suite using an AI against the binary and then you build a test server against which other people, not you, can run their own implementations and you just report how many tests pass.
How can one prove that X is a copy when none of the source code match original? Clean room re-implementations are not illegal after all, if we go that way (yeah, yeah, I know about clean room argument).
While I personally do not think it would be different, but a lot of LLM folks are, and even some companies (rushing to blatantly clone and de-compile stuff). Kinda strange feeling sitting and looking around in the midst of it, y'know.