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Retro game devs fear AI scraping, reconsidering open source

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Developers in the retro gaming community are increasingly hesitant to release their work as open source due to concerns about AI models scraping their creations. This trend raises questions about whether the ethical advantages of open source outweigh the potential for AI to exploit this shared work in ways considered unethical. The discussion seeks to explore these competing values and their impact on the open-source movement. AI

IMPACT Concerns about AI scraping may lead to less open-source code being available, potentially slowing down collaborative development and innovation in various fields.

RANK_REASON The item is a social media post expressing an opinion and raising a question about AI's impact on open-source development, rather than reporting a factual event.

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Retro game devs fear AI scraping, reconsidering open source

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

    I have noticed a lot of developers in the retro gaming space stop making their work open source due to being concerned about AI scraping. It has led me to quest

    I have noticed a lot of developers in the retro gaming space stop making their work open source due to being concerned about AI scraping. It has led me to question if the ethical benefits of making something open source are important enough to outweigh the fueling of a very uneth…

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