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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

So you use other people's open source code without crediting the authors or respecting their license conditions? Good for you, parasite.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Very frequently, yes. As well as closed source code and intellectual property of all kinds. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 minutes ago

Ah, I guess I'll have to question why I am lying to myself then. Don't be a douchebag. Don't use open source without respecting copyrights & licenses. The authors are already providing their work for free. Don't shit on that legacy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Programmers don't have the luxury of using inferior toolsets.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago

That statement is as dumb as it is non-sensical.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Ahh right, so when I use copilot to autocomplete the creation of more tests in exactly the same style of the tests I manually created with my own conscious thought, you're saying that it's really just copying what someone else wrote? If you really believe that, then you clearly don't understand how LLMs work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 minutes ago

I know both LLM mechanisms better than you, it would appear, and my point is not so weak that I would have to fabricate a strawman that I then claim is what you said, to proceed to argue the strawman.

Using LLMs trained on other people's source code is parasitic behaviour and violates copyrights and licenses.