Dave W Plummer: "AI Cloning should be illegal"
Dave W Plummer@davepl1968AI Cloning should be illegal. It feels self-evident, but we may need to wait for the courts to be sure. This morning, I took a full Windows application from Microsoft, had AI reverse-engineer it using NSA's Ghidra into a set of atomicizable actions, then translated those actions backward into Rust logic, then compiled the Rust into a brand new application.
- ▪Dave W Plummer@davepl1968AI Cloning should be illegal.
- ▪It feels self-evident, but we may need to wait for the courts to be sure.
- ▪This morning, I took a full Windows application from Microsoft, had AI reverse-engineer it using NSA's Ghidra into a set of atomicizable actions, then translated those actions backward into Rust logic, then compiled the Rust into a brand ne
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| Canonical URL | https://twitter.com/davepl1968/status/2107875089446580273 |
| Publication time | Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:59:54 +0000 |
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Dave W Plummer@davepl1968AI Cloning should be illegal. And I think it might be. It feels self-evident, but we may need to wait for the courts to be sure. This morning, I took a full Windows application from Microsoft, had AI reverse-engineer it using NSA's Ghidra into a set of atomicizable actions, then translated those actions backward into Rust logic, then compiled the Rust into a brand new application. And it did it. In one shot. So the process is: C Code -> Compiler -> Linker -> Exe then Exe -> OPS -> Rust -> Compiler -> Linker -> Exe So you feed it an application, and it produces a Rust version of that same application with 100% of the same functionality and appearance and "none" of the original code - just the logic behind that code. I don't consider this coding.
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