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Re:Coding Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again by 63stack on Monday March 30, 2026 @05:47AM (#47572326)
Github has posted that they will now train on everyone's data (even private) unless you opt out (until they change their mind on that). Anthropic has been training on your data on certain tiers already. Meta bittorrented books to train their models.

Surely if your license says "LLM output trained on this code is legally tainted", it is going to dissuade them.

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Re:Coding Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again by archagon on Monday March 30, 2026 @02:42PM (#47578068)
No, it won’t dissuade them. But when we finally get the chance to legally beat the shit out of these companies, I want to reserve my place in line.

Alternatively, they can learn to trust me on this and simply exclude/evict my code from the training corpus.

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