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  Preston Maness ☭aspensmonster@tenforward.social

  Oct 15, 2026, 1:56 AM

  @Orb2069 @mcc I'm surprised they ever thought "co-authored-by" was a good idea; you want to grant authorship --- and all the rights that it entails --- to... a competitor? That's trying to put you out of business?

  Lolwut?

  And that's ignoring the whole "our co-author stole a bunch of IP" problem.

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  mccmcc@mastodon.social

  Oct 15, 2026, 1:56 AM

  @aspensmonster @Orb2069 i suspect as soon as public sentiment turns against "AI" we'll see all those co-authored-by's disappear

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  Glyphglyph@mastodon.social

  Oct 15, 2026, 3:01 AM

  @mcc @aspensmonster @Orb2069 already happening. some projects explicitly reject this as a matter of ontological correctness (claude is not sentient and thus “not an author”) which I understand philosophically but disagree with strategically.

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  Glyphglyph@mastodon.social

  Oct 15, 2026, 3:01 AM

  @mcc @aspensmonster @Orb2069 your “competitor” here already has logs that can show this attribution if that’s a legal strategy they want to pursue, obscuring it for yourself removes the records you need for a climb-down if _you_ want to eliminate one

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  Orb 2069Orb2069@mastodon.online

  Oct 15, 2026, 1:39 PM

  @glyph

  That assumes they're not 'watermarking' (which, IIRC, is just setting a nonrandom seed?) and waiting for the right supreme court ruling to declare their TOS overrides the GPL because (correctly or not) the kernel is 51% their product.
  @mcc @aspensmonster

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