Worries about Open Source in the age of LLMs
5 days ago
- #AI Ethics
- #LLMs
- #Open Source
- Concerns about the future of Open Source in the era of Large Language Models (LLMs).
- Discussion on the potential decline of small Open Source projects due to LLMs rewriting code.
- Energy costs and inefficiency of generating the same code multiple times via LLMs versus using dependencies.
- Issues with inlining dependencies, including loss of license compliance tracking and metadata.
- Loss of community sharing and growth opportunities when code is not shared as Open Source.
- Legal and copyright concerns surrounding LLM-generated code ('copyright laundering').
- Impact on Open Source maintainers, including moving code off platforms like GitHub due to scraping.
- Potential degradation of LLM training quality if Open Source contributions decline.
- Call to preserve Open Source culture against the for-profit drive of AI companies.