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I wonder if there was some confusion between Stryker the Army infantry vehicle and Stryker the medtech company.

It seems a really weird target for Iran otherwise.


Medtech company males complete sense. Iran's strategy seems to be to tighten the screws on US citizens so they put pressure on the government to stop the war. They seem to be doing that with things like higher gas prices, and now delays at hospitals with this stryker hit

Makes sense given that US citizens tend not to be too supportive of american wars, but tolerate them because it doesnt really affect them. So iran can get this to affect them then people might come out to the streets. Which would be especially effective in a midterms year like now.

Man itll be ironic as fuck if iran manages to enact regime change in the us before the us does in iran


It it was the case, Iran underestimates how vindictive Americans are.

Meh. Americans showed in vietnam and iraq that they dont just go along with wars they think are bullshit

This could make americans hate iran and demand retribution, but i think its more likely to make americans made at israel and their own governmnet for dragging them into it for no reason


Yeah, I had to lookup the names! Stryker the armored vehicle is made by General Dynamics. Striker the fire truck is made by Oshkosh Corporation.

Scott References the top comment on this previous HN discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246295


I don't think Fontana's reasoning holds up.

I think it is more like photography.

The case law is that a camera can't own a copyright, but a human can, even though all the pixels were produced by the camera with very little involvement at the pixel level by the human.


A camera doesn't use unlicensed IP from other sources to produce an image. The makers of the camera explicitly gave you a right to own the photograph taken with the parts used to assemble the camera.

Actually yes, Fontana's reasoning does hold up, and the USSC seems to agree:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-de...

Prompting generally does not constitute authorship under US law.


That was not what the USSC case was about. It was about assigning copyright to an AI instead of a human.

You can have Claude write all these out to a file.

Then you can feed them into another service.


> My, the world has changed.

No. Your tech experience was an aberration.

For almost all of history, including recent history, tech and military went together. Whether compound bows, or spears or metallurgy.

Euler used his math to develop artillery tables for the Prussian army.

von Neumann helped develop the atom bomb.

The military played a huge role in creating Silicon Valley.

However, to people who grew up in the mid to late 90s, it is easy to miss that that period was a major aberration. You had serious people talking about the end of history. You had John Perry Barlow's utterly naive Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace which looks more and more naive every year.


I think you could have an LLM produce a written English detailed description of the complete logic of the program and tests.

Then use another LLM to produce code from that spec.

This would be similar to the cleanroom technique.


Producing a copy of a copyrighted work through a purely mechanical process is clear violation of copyright. LLMs are absolutely not different from a copier machine in the eyes of the law.

Original works can only be produced by a human being, by definition in copyright law. Any artifact produced by an animal, a mechanical process, a machine, a natural phenomenon etc is either a derived work if it started from an original copyrighted work, or a public domain artifact not covered by copyright law if it didn't.

For example, an image created on a rock struck by lightning is not a copyright covered work. Similarly, an image generated by an diffusion model from a randomly generated sentence is not a copyrightable work. However, if you feed a novel as a prompt to an LLM and ask for a summary, the resulting summary is a derived work of said novel, and it falls under the copyright of the novel's owner - you are not allowed to distribute copies of the summary the LLM generated for you.

Whether the output of an LLM, or the LLM weights themselves, might be considered derived works of the training set of that LLM is a completely different discussion, and one that has not yet been settled in court.


Perhaps - but an argument might still be made that the result is a derivative work of the original, given that it's produced by feeding the original work through automated tooling.

But either way, deleting the original version from the repo and replacing it with the new version - as opposed to, say, archiving the old version and starting a new repo with the new version - would still be a dick move.


Assuming the second LLM hadn’t been trained on the existing codebase. Which in this case we can’t know, but can assume that it was.

Does the second LLM have the codebase in its training?

One could use Comma, which has only been trained on public domain texts:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05209


> The copyright vacuum: If AI-generated code cannot be copyrighted (as the courts suggest), then the maintainers may not even have the legal standing to license v7.0.0 under MIT or any license.

I believe this is a misunderstanding of the ruling. The code can’t be copyrighted by a LLM. However, the code could be copyrighted by the person running the LLM.


Nope. Stallman helped create this mess.

Free software underpins all the infrastructure of surveillance capitalism.


It underpins all software, and has wormed its way into Windows. I'm not sure this is as good a point as you think.

With the cloud, GPL won’t protect you either

AGPLv3 largely does, if you can and do enforce it in some way when breaches happen.

AGPL partially works. Can you think of any better terms? SSPL was a flop.

There are probably more Windows enthusiasts than there are Linux enthusiasts in absolute numbers.

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