"Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch"

[clementd@framapiaf.org]

@bagder This is clearly satire

[laalsaas@c3d2.social]

@bagder the language they use makes it hard for me to believe they are serious

[jer@hachyderm.io]

@clementd @bagder

> This service is provided "as is" without warranty. MalusCorp is not responsible for any legal consequences, moral implications, or late-night guilt spirals resulting from use of our services.

😆

[jimfuller@mastodon.social]

@bagder is copyright still a thing ... I thought it got blown up with llm ? lets wait till oracle database source is recreated ... maybe opinions will change.

[wifi_freak@social.zischundweg.cloud]

@bagder "Full legal indemnification*
*Through our offshore subsidiary in a jurisdiction that doesn't recognize software copyright"

Lol.

[stombeur@mastodon.social]

@bagder if you read the fine print it is too sarcastic to be real 😀, so i agree it is probably a joke

[abmurrow@hachyderm.io]

@bagder Wow, this is so blatantly evil it actually reads like a parody.

No longer content with merely using open source for free and sponging on the ecosystem at the expense of maintainers, now there at tools that just let you steal it and pretend you have a legal claim to that code.

Anyway, I hope they have fun inheriting all of the new bugs too.

[clementd@framapiaf.org]

@jer @bagder > The MalusCorp Guarantee™
If any of our liberated code is found to infringe on the original license, we'll provide a full refund and relocate our corporate headquarters to international waters.*

*This has never happened because it legally cannot happen. Trust us.

[n0toose@chaos.social]

@bagder This looks like satire, "Definitely Real Corp" as testimonial. I nearly fell for it myself until I read one of the asterisms.

[icing@chaos.social]

@bagder On what did they train then? Proprietary sources? They need something, where is it from?

[realmurphy@social.linux.pizza]

@bagder

I'm by far no expert in (online) irony & sarcasm, but that looks a lot like a satirical site, doesn't it?

(At least I hope it is.)

[bagder@mastodon.social]

so yeah, I would say that this is most likely satire

[n0toose@chaos.social]

@bagder I think it's more unfortunate that we are at a point where this is very believable.

[synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net]

@bagder the AI bros are just trolling us now

[oschell@mastodon.social]

@bagder Well made parody !

[foosel@chaos.social]

@bagder I sure as fuck hope so, because that page makes me sick.

[ben@bluetoot.hardill.me.uk]

@bagder So this is logical conclusion of the python chardet library re-license.

Getting a court to rule is probably the only way to get a answer one way or another, but getting the LLMs to say definitively what is in the training set will probably be hard (claimed trade secrets).

Even if it's satire it won't be long

[tony@toot.hoyle.me.uk]

@clementd @bagder You'd think, but it follows on from his talk on it.. https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/speaker/mike_nolan/

[antsu@p.antsu.net]

@bagder Aptly named!

[veeso_dev@hachyderm.io]

@bagder Nice trolling, but I'm puzzled, what happens if you pay? The stripe checkout page is real. Wouldn't that be considered scamming then?