AI Is Destroying the Creative Commons

AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons

Chester Wisniewski argues that LLMs scraping everything online without regard for licenses have broken the 40-year social contract of open source. Creators now face three risks: public code helps AI find vulnerabilities, repos get flooded with AI-generated pull requests, and derivative works may implicate you in copyright infringement. He calls this a 'digital dark age' and urges a collective push for a new digital Renaissance.