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Re:AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu by cmsj on Thursday April 17, 2025 @07:43PM (#43723450)
There is one very specific risk worth mentioning: AI code is a potentially existential crisis for Open Source.

An ecosystem that depends on copyright can't exist if its codebase is overrun by un-copyrightable code.

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Re:AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu by kazinator on Thursday April 17, 2025 @08:34PM (#43723734)
It's not an existential crisis. You just don't merge radioactive contributions.

If it sneaks in under your watchful radar, the damage control won't be fun though.

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