In the long list of awful things AI might lead to we can also add killing open-source software

One of the many things AI is doing is make us confront and attempt to clarify many of our concepts: What does it mean to code? What does it mean to be conscious? Where is the boundary between inspiration and copying? On this last point, a couple of software and programming researchers have recently demonstrated that it's technically possible and seemingly legal, based on our current understanding of copyright and related concepts, to use AI to scrape and reforge entire suites of open-source software...