Vibe coders sign a contract when they use AI to generate stuff, which gives rights away to the company. Regardless of copyright protections from the state, a contract is in most cases legally binding.
Copyright law requires human authorship as opposed to random generation. This doesn't inherently exclude all generative works, algorithms that were carefully crafted and datasets curated can potentially have their results considered "authored" but the AI Company owners that made them.

In order to make it true we need to pass laws that regulate the AI companies and their slop. In the meantime, I recommend nobody uses slop code. Actually, I'd recommend that regardless of ownership rights.

[–] Hexarei@beehaw.org 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I signed no contracts to download the open source local models I use for code generation, just for what it's worth

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah yes, that model. Of course. You're right. I would know because I have read the details for every model in existence and can clearly infer which one you're talking about. Yes.

[–] Hexarei@beehaw.org 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

There's lots of open source models you can download from Hugging Face, Ollama, and even github without signing any contracts or terms of use. Gemma3, Llama, Ministral, GLM, olmo, and a bajillion others. GLM-4.7-Flash is a very capable agentic model that can run at very usable speeds on commodity hardware - and none of what it generates is dictated by any agreements or policies agreed to anywhere.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

https://ai.google.dev/gemma/terms

You agreed to these terms when you downloaded Gemma3 from an official source and if you did not then you're an unlicensed user AKA piracy.