Re:Did Claude Increase Bugs in Rsync?
by matheusmoreira on Friday June 05, 2026 @06:25PM
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Irrelevant either way. It's your name on the commit, and the code either infringes or it does not. Whether an LLM was used is immaterial.
Not irrelevant. A large number of people who would not copy and paste code from one project to the another will attempt to contribute the copyright-infringing output of an LLM and not think twice.
Unfortunately, a large number of people are being told—and here, you can see many who believe it—that the output of an LLM either carries no copyright or is copyright by the one prompting it. In other words, even right here on Hacker News it’s widely believed that LLMs “launder” copyright.