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Codeberg bans vibe coded projects (blog.codeberg.org)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1279028/codeberg-bans-vibe-coded-projects

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[–] 18 points 1 month ago* (9 children)

The main argument is due to copyright issues of LLM generated code. Github will happily remove repos which violated copyright laws or IP laws. It makes sense that Codeberg doesn’t want to host code which may be violating copyright law.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    Then why not say it's not allowed to upload code you don't have copyright to? This would make sense, nobody would question it and it would generally also cover AI-generated code.

    Mentioning vibe coding just upgraded it into a social and moral topic, while the sole fact that AI generated code is no issue at all, just that there is not a general concensus in the world who holds the copyright to that code.

    It's kinda like blanked banning cooking, because you can't cook without a knife, and knife can be used as a weapon.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It's more like banning cooking anything with mushrooms in it, because we haven't sorted out which mushrooms are poisonous or not. You could make it more accurate by instead banning cooking with anything poisonous, but of course then lots of people will keep cooking with their mushrooms, naively thinking they are not poisonous and therefore allowed.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    It's just a different analogy but the point is the same, why not ban poisonous ingredients? It implies poisonous mushrooms also, but doesn't criminalize cooking.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago

    Just one problem with that: Every piece of work - code or otherwise, made by a human or not - may violate copyright law. There really is no way to know without actually checking against all other works (which you can't because you don't have access to all of them).

    What GitHub does is what a sane person would do: React to claims. They just assume that what they get uploaded isn't violating copyright until someone claims otherwise. And as it is literally impossible to actually know, that is the only sane way to approach this problem apart from just not hosting other people's stuff at all.

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