Malus – Clean Room as a Service

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March 12, 2026
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Posted by microflash. Score: 549 points. Comments: 199.
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Concerns
- The concept of 'License Laundering as a Service' raises significant ethical concerns about the integrity of AI training data and the potential for reproducing proprietary code.
- Claiming that proprietary AI systems have never seen certain code is dubious without a transparent independent audit process, which undermines trust in AI applications.
- The notion of liberation from open source license obligations is troubling and could lead to a lack of accountability in AI development and deployment.
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