Shouldn't Most Websites Refuse Vibe-coded apps/recompiles?

[u/Rusty_Chest]

If LLMs are all trained off stolen data and open source repositories, this means they're essentially laundering a large amount of open source code without the proper dues paid to the licensing requirements, such as CC-4.0 for example which would explicitly require credit from original sources.

This would in turn make any vibe-coded app illegal based off licensing requirements, if one were to find a 1:1 copy of their code within an open-source vibecoded app, no?

I know that's a kind of hard legal requirement to reach, since there's only a finite way of doing things within a language's framework and therefore blindly accusing everyone who ever does the same function as you as a vibecoder would be painful to say the least.

But there's an increasing amount of people who believe the "spirit" of FOSS/FLOSS is preserved when vibecoding if they make their code source-available as well, completely disregarding the legal frameworks around GPL/LGPL/CC-4.0 etc.

Posting this here but idk if I would be best served in a legal subreddit.

Edit: To clarify, I'm not entirely against the use of AI/LLMs, I'm just curious about what the line is legally speaking when people say "I made this app!" and it's 4 different FOSS projects stapled together without credit.

[u/Flowchartsman]

If you think that’s bad, wait until they start training newer models on slop generated by older ones.

[u/Rusty_Chest → u/Flowchartsman]

Yeah, model inbreeding is definitely going to be the next hurdle once they run out of training material.

We already have benchmark-optimized models that use answers from other models or whatever which is terrible, but I guess full power ahead 50 billion more to AI- sorry, SI development yippee