Armin Ronacher, creator of Flask and a long-time open source developer, said in a blog post that he welcomed the license change, as he had wanted them for years. "What I think is more interesting about this question is the consequences of where we are," Ronacher said. "Copyleft code like the GPL heavily depends on copyrights and friction to enforce it. But because it's fundamentally in the open, with or without tests, you can trivially rewrite it these days." The use of AI raises questions about what level of human involvement is required to copyright AI-assisted code. The US Supreme Court rec
Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing… "To be clear, the exploit that Claude wrote only works within a testing environment that intentionally removes some of the security features of modern web browsers," explained security researchers Evyatar Ben Asher, Keane Lucas, Nicholas Carlini, Newton Cheng, and Daniel Freeman in a blog post . …
AI + ML Anthropic's Claude claws its way towards the top of the AI market Who knew questioning authority and signaling virtue would lead to growth? Anthropic has been killing it in the business market, success that appears to be at least partially attributable to pushback against the Pentagon. …
… That's essentially a rewrite done without copying the original code – though it's unclear whether Claude ingested chardet's code during training and, if that occurred, whether Claude's output cloned that training data. …