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  • AI Code is Hollowing Out Open Source, and Maintainers are Looking the Other Way

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  • I have seen this sentiment, but I don't know what the world looks like without copyright protections for creative works.

    Does open source exist in your vision? How?

    My imagination for this topic may not be as expansive as yours, but my interpretation is that if people contribute code to the commons, it will immediately available for any use - including for use by massive corporations.

    So it ends up looking like people working for big companies for free.

  • AI Code is Hollowing Out Open Source, and Maintainers are Looking the Other Way

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  • as soon as it's modified by a human in nontrivial ways

    is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

    We know that people are using coding LLMs as slot machines - pull the handle and see if it solves your problem. Where is the human modifying anything? That is a "straight dump" of AI output without modifications.

  • AI Code is Hollowing Out Open Source, and Maintainers are Looking the Other Way

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  • Honestly, if AI destroys copyright, it's the best thing it can do.

    I have seen this being said, but I really don't understand it. Just because copyright can be abused doesn't mean (to me) that we ought to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

    If copyright no longer exists, what incentive do people have to share copyleft code at all? It clearly would no longer exist, so can you help me understand how both copyright can be dead and open source exist? Or are you simply accepting that rather than copyright, we are using trade secrets (like the KFC chicken recipe) to protect works?

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    AI Code is Hollowing Out Open Source, and Maintainers are Looking the Other Way

    www.quippd.com /writing/2026/04/08/ai-code-is-hollowing-out-open-source-and-maintainers-are-looking-the-other-way.html

  • Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

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  • Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

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  • What is the purpose of this message?

    But also, yes, i love the cliche because people just moan on lemmy about things instead of actively addressing the issue with the appropriate people on the appropriate mediums.

    Airing your grievances out here is fun though. I get it. but asking the people upset about it to do some work is also fun.

    Awfully ironic to say this, now that "code is free". What work are we talking about?

  • Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

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  • Well, you could import the same policies into Firefox that LibreWolf uses, or it might be some workaround in your graphics driver that acts on the filename of the Firefox executable.

    Obviously you don't need to test, but just throwing out ideas if you would want to.

  • Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

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  • Might just be a Firefox bug, since it's a very light fork. Try Firefox and see if it does the same thing.

  • Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

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  • Why do you want people to stop discussing this? Are you running community management for Mozilla? If not, why is discussing it not "addressing the issue"? People are engaging in discourse.

  • Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

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  • I'm seeing closed bugs from 2021 here, are we supposed to take these seriously?

  • Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

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  • Could you link to a real issue so we aren't guessing about what we are looking at?

  • Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

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  • What fingerprint issues are you aware of?

  • Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

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  • It'd be nice if they even pleased the open AI enthusiasts, but they can't even manage that.

  • Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

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  • That was what I installed on a Windows VM last week. Such a nice installer, too!

  • Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

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  • Just letting the voting happen. I'm sharing.

  • Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

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  • Some of us don't run Windows. I have blogged about Manifest v3, FWIW.

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Fifteen Years of Waterfox: Alex Kontos on Independence, AI, and the Future of Browsers

    www.quippd.com /writing/2026/02/02/fifteen-years-of-waterfox-alex-kontos-on-independence-ai-and-the-future-of-browsers.html

  • Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews

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  • Pretty shocking that something this bad was pushed to you, then, no?

  • Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews

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  • AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source

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  • The output of the LLM can be incorporated into copyrighted material and is copyright free. I never claimed that the copyright on the original work was lost.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews

    www.quippd.com /writing/2026/01/06/architecting-consent-for-ai-deceptive-patterns-in-firefox-link-previews.html
  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Architecting Consent for AI: Deceptive Patterns in Firefox Link Previews

    www.quippd.com /writing/2026/01/06/architecting-consent-for-ai-deceptive-patterns-in-firefox-link-previews.html

  • AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source

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  • That is absolutely not true. It doesn't remove the copyright from the original work and no court has ruled as such.

    Sorry, I just got around to this message. That is the idea of the provenance -- clearly, the canonical work is copyright. It is the version that has been stripped of its provenance via the LLM that no longer retains its copyright (because as I pointed out, LLM outputs cannot be copyright).

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source

    www.quippd.com /writing/2025/12/17/AIs-unpaid-debt-how-llm-scrapers-destroy-the-social-contract-of-open-source.html
  • Linux @programming.dev
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    AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source

    www.quippd.com /writing/2025/12/17/AIs-unpaid-debt-how-llm-scrapers-destroy-the-social-contract-of-open-source.html
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source

    www.quippd.com /writing/2025/12/17/AIs-unpaid-debt-how-llm-scrapers-destroy-the-social-contract-of-open-source.html
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla

    www.quippd.com /writing/2025/12/08/mozillas-betrayal-of-open-source-googles-gemini-ai-is-overwriting-volunteer-work-on-support-mozilla.html
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    The New York Times is suing Perplexity for copyright infringement

    techcrunch.com /2025/12/05/the-new-york-times-is-suing-perplexity-for-copyright-infringement/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots)

    www.quippd.com /writing/2025/11/27/thank-mozilla-for-killing-localization-on-support-mozilla-and-replacing-human-contributions-with-AI-bots.html
  • LeopardsAteMyFace @lemmy.ca
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    Bailouts for the Soyboys: Soybean Farmers Surprised by the Trade War They Voted For

  • Leopards Ate My Face @lemmy.world
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    Bailouts for the Soyboys: Soybean Farmers Surprised by the Trade War They Voted For

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Former NYC Deputy Mayor Gets the Data Wrong, Says 55% of NYC Residents Will Leave Within 5 Years

    www.quippd.com /writing/2025/06/26/former-nyc-deputy-mayor-gets-the-data-wrong-says-55-of-nyc-residents-will-leave-within-5-years.html
  • privacy @lemmy.ca
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    Mozilla Turns Firefox Away from Open Source, Towards Spyware: Firefox Labs Now Requires Data Collection

    www.quippd.com /writing/2025/06/16/mozilla-turns-firefox-away-from-open-source-towards-spyware-firefox-labs-now-requires-data-collection.html
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    Enterprise Policies for Firefox Customization: A Beginner’s Guide

    www.quippd.com /writing/2025/05/18/enterprise-policies-for-firefox-customization-a-beginners-guide.html
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    The Forced Firefox Terms of Use (ToS) Clickwrap Agreement is Here

    www.quippd.com /writing/2025/05/13/the-forced-firefox-terms-of-use-tos-clickwrap-agreement-is-here.html
  • Privacy @lemmy.world
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    Mozilla Has Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default

    www.quippd.com /writing/2025/03/12/mozilla-has-been-sharing-aggregated-firefox-data-with-advertisers-since-2017-when-it-enabled-telemetry-by-default.html