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I don’t mind LLMs, but what irks me is the customer noncompete, you have these systems that can do almost anything and the legal terms explicitly say you’re not allowed to use the thing for anything that competes with the thing. But if the things can do almost anything then you really can’t use it for anything. Making a game with Grok? No, that competes with the xAI game studio. Making an agents framework with ChatGPT? No, that competes with Swarm. Making legal AI with Claude? No, that competes with Claude. Seems like the only American companies making AI we can actually use for work are HuggingFace and Meta.


Ignore the noncompetes. Never get sued. If you do, everyone else is on your side.


Meh, why pay to teach someone else’s bot? I’m sticking with open source


Form a Nonprofit X and a Corp Y:

Noprofit X publishes outputs from competing AI, which is not copyrightable.

Corp Y injests content published by Nonprofit X.




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