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AI repurposes 12-year-old abandoned Kodi plugins code

An individual discovered that their abandoned Kodi plugins code, which had been inactive for 12 years, was utilized by an AI model. The code was found within a Hugging Face repository, specifically in a project named HuggingFaceCode. This incident highlights the potential for AI models to access and repurpose older, publicly available code. AI

IMPACT Highlights how AI models may utilize older, publicly available code, raising questions about code ownership and attribution.

RANK_REASON The item describes a user's personal experience with AI repurposing old code, which is not a significant industry event but rather a commentary on AI's data usage.

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AI repurposes 12-year-old abandoned Kodi plugins code

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Noooo, #AI stole my 12 year old abandoned #Kodi Plugins Code! ​:blobcattableflip:​ ​:gura_laugh:​ https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceCode/in-the-stack

    Noooo, #AI stole my 12 year old abandoned #Kodi Plugins Code! ​:blobcattableflip:​ ​:gura_laugh:​ https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceCode/in-the-stack