Archive: https://archive.today/A2OYv From the post: >>Why it matters: Artificial intelligence is forcing a reckoning within the open-source community. The technology's ability to replicate software at scale is blurring the line between innovation and appropriation – especially when it comes to copyright. Two software researchers recently demonstrated how modern AI tools can reproduce entire open-source projects, creating proprietary versions that appear both functional and legally distinct. The partly-satirical demonstration shows how quickly artificial intelligence can blur long-standing boundaries between coding innovation, copyright law, and the open-source principles that underpin much of the modern internet.