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Who is wholesale copying OSS code and releasing it under a non-compliant license with an LLM?
Uh... Lots of people? That's kinda the problem. Maybe use a search engine. There are plenty of cases of LLMs 'laundering' copyleft code into (often) proprietary codebases. And that's just the most blatant and brain-dead obvious example; the use of GPL code to train commercial models is a bit more subtle and nuanced but no less nefarious, and the laws are currently unequipped to handle that part at all.
You don't need an LLM to find and copy GPL code. The LLM isn't adding anything new here.
Oh I'm sorry I didn't realize you had the intelligence of an LLM. The conversation is now over. I hope you have a pleasant day.
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