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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
eamon@social.coop ("Eamon") wrote:
Besides being unethical*, these tools strike me as a real life instantiation of the apocryphal "faster horse". It's an indictment of our field that people are turning to duct tape for poor tooling instead of building better tools, right?
* Because they were trained on code that was scraped without the authors' consent, and clearly violate the spirit—and probably the letter—of GPL and other copyleft licenses.