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2026-09-01 05:43 UTC

AI code bans may be impossible to enforce in the first place I hate this attitude that if a rule or standard can’t be enforced perfectly, we shouldn’t strive for it. We can’t (reasonably) run an OS free of proprietary software, does that mean the free software movement should just give up?

Replies (5)

  • @woelkchen@lemmy.world 2026-09-01 06:53

    I think one way is to make people realize that there is a concept in copyright called Threshold of Originality, meaning that because machine generated output in itself is not creative work, it’s not copyrightable. You can do literally anything with it, the licenses attached don’t matter. The GPL is not enforceable and no proprietary EULA is enforceable.

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  • @Paradoxeuh@jlai.lu 2026-09-01 06:58

    AI code ban makes as much sense as code written in IDE ban. That’s why it is impossible to enforce. It makes no sense.

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  • @hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-01 08:19

    I think of it like age verification. Slipperly slope to a proprietary kernel-level “security compliance module” on all devices, aka the end of general computation.

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  • @aski3252@lemmy.world 2026-09-02 06:10

    I’m very critical of AI, but complete bans on AI use are, at the moment, pretty much unenforcable. Not hard to enforce, not impossible to enforce 100%, impossible to enforce. There currently is no reliable way to verify if and how much someone used AI, except maybe if you monitor people’s systems. Obviously, if someone who has no clue about coding uses it to write the entire code, you notice. But that’s simply not how most coders use AI…

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  • @Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-09-02 12:03

    So how would one enforce this? It is not that it is very difficult, it is impossible.

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