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Are Developers OK With Their Work Being Stolen?
Short answer: No — not really.But the picture is more complicated than that. Across the UK tech sector, a growing debate is taking place around AI scraping, AI training data ethics, and developer copyright. Large language models and AI coding tools are trained on vast amounts of publicly available code, raising serious questions about consent, licensing, and intellectual property. Modern AI coding tools are trained on enormous datasets that include public GitHub repositories, open-source projects, coding forums and technical documentation. This process, often referred to as AI code scraping, allows models to learn patterns, syntax, and best practices. From a…
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Are Developers OK With Their Work Being Stolen?
Short answer: No — not really.But the picture is more complicated than that. Across the UK tech sector, a growing debate is taking place around AI scraping, AI training data ethics, and developer copyright. Large language models and AI coding tools are trained on vast amounts of publicly available code, raising serious questions about consent, licensing, and intellectual property. Modern AI coding tools are trained on enormous datasets that include public GitHub repositories, open-source projects, coding forums and technical documentation. This process, often referred to as AI code scraping, allows models to learn patterns, syntax, and best practices. From a…
