AI "clean room" replacing Open Source?

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The video argues that open-source is dead because AI enables 'clean room engineering' to bypass licenses like GPL. Here is how this works to legally snatch open-source code for proprietary use:

1. Robot A (AI) reads the documentation and code of a GPL-licensed package to understand its functionality.

1. Robot A generates a detailed technical specification based on that functionality, not the actual code.

1. Robot B (a different AI) implements the functionality solely from that specification, never interacting with the original code.

This process creates a legal buffer, as current law distinguishes between copying functional ideas versus copyrighted expressions. The speaker fears this eliminates the incentive to create complex, free software.