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Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

pivot to AI here

turns out Continue was less than happy with their own backer YC paying another company to take credit for their work

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The license stuff is whatever, but Imagine seeing this sort of sloppiness in the revision history and thinking "Yeah these guys seem legit let's give them a million dollars!" We are in such a bubble.

[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That's amazing. Do you think they crtl-f'd the name changes or ChatGPT'd them?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

founder mode, mate

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago

I endorse this usage, and am now 100% in favour of popularising "founder mode" as a term if we do this

[–] raoul@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

[He cloned] another AI editor ... covered under the Apache open source license [and] slapped its own made-up closed license ... which Pan admitted was written by ChatGPT.

Who gives a shit, rigth?

[–] slopjockey@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago

The way he admitted it was hilarious too

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Apache explicitly allows this. I don't get why OSI bros are endlessly surprised by this.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, pretty bad coverage of that by the article.

Apache isn't GPL, and it isn't an oversight that it allows closed source derivative works.