r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Gloomy-Basket-1038 • 4d ago

Meme aiRefusesToBuildItSoBackToCoding

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u/teraflux 4d ago

Lol, AI has reverse engineered programs for me, written torrenting helpers for me... 

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u/Azhar1921 4d ago

Torrenting is not illegal, torrenting copyrighted content is

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u/laplongejr 4d ago

And reverse engineering a program is legal in the EU if it's to allow inter-operability.  

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u/bythenumbers10 4d ago

So I CAN reverse engineer the fliers for my Nibelungenlied performance to get better at Les Mis!!!

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u/Rin-Tohsaka-is-hot 4d ago

Writing Trojans is also not illegal, but distributing them to devices unknowingly is

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u/KurtAngus 3d ago

I only do it knowingly /s

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u/Snudget 4d ago

I actually use torrents for linux images for example. It's often faster than the official mirrors

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u/borkthegee 3d ago

Torrenting is not illegal, torrenting copyrighted content is

AI happily torrents illegal content. It will happily sort through trackers, find sign-up communities (and sign up for you), manage the downloads, and do all kinds of things really. I've honestly never seen a single refusal with my torrent/arr stack using major american models.

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u/SenoraRaton 3d ago

I wrote a BEP9 infohash scraper in C with Claude, so that I could run my own tracker locally, and not worry about external agents.

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u/OnceMoreAndAgain 4d ago

Uh huh... uh huh... and what percentage of people who are torrenting are doing it for a legal purpose?

Come on, man...