Oh, I recall seeing a post months ago about this LLM clean room approach being promoted as a service to “help remove license restrictions” on open source projects. They would deliver you a new chunk of code as a drop-in replacement for “restrictive license” existing code.
So now a similar approach is being taken to do the same for proprietary applications and games. Fucking hell this is so damn bleak.
Wasn’t that website a bit? Not that it’s hard to believe that this would exist (as a commercial service, we know people are doing this with coding agents).
The site is https://malus.sh/ and it is definitely satire but I think it also actually sort of does what it says it does (albeit surely not as reliably as they imply). 404media says that it is “satire but also fully functional”, at least.
I clicked through to the site that was linked in the post, and it seemed pretty legit looking, but maybe it was a ruse. I can’t recall the site/service name now though.
Oh, I recall seeing a post months ago about this LLM clean room approach being promoted as a service to “help remove license restrictions” on open source projects. They would deliver you a new chunk of code as a drop-in replacement for “restrictive license” existing code.
So now a similar approach is being taken to do the same for proprietary applications and games. Fucking hell this is so damn bleak.
Wasn’t that website a bit? Not that it’s hard to believe that this would exist (as a commercial service, we know people are doing this with coding agents).
Perhaps I ate the onion on that one, but it’s still a legit and active issue despite the service being a farce.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chardet-LLM-Rewrite-Relicense
The site is https://malus.sh/ and it is definitely satire but I think it also actually sort of does what it says it does (albeit surely not as reliably as they imply). 404media says that it is “satire but also fully functional”, at least.
The creators of the site launched it with this (CW: slop-heavy) FOSDEM talk: Let’s end open source together with this one simple trick
It’s like if Jonathan Swift ended A Modest Proposal by plugging his actual newly-opened butcher shop.
It’s impossible to hate these people enough
I thought that was a joke though, wasn’t it?
I clicked through to the site that was linked in the post, and it seemed pretty legit looking, but maybe it was a ruse. I can’t recall the site/service name now though.