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> The fact that they’re refusing to back down and admit they made a mistake is not a good sign for the company.

I wish this were true, but the current political and corporate climate is that nearly anything is justifiable as long as you win, where winning is money or power. Fraud, corruption, extortion, etc.

> I would not want to be one of their clients when it came to trying to dispute something.

I find most b2b transactions are hostile, and the purpose of sales or customer success is to smooth over the hostility. Tremendously more true in the B2C space, and only accelerated by the aforementioned political and corporate climate.

In other words, as long as their staff is charismatic / crafty enough, this “scandal” will slough right off.

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I meant it's not a good sign for anyone considering working with the company.

If they refuse to back down and won't admit errors on something this obvious, I would not want to be dealing with them on an insurance claim.

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Problem is law hasn't caught up with how easy this previously GOOJF practice became with LLMs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design

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You might be able to argue that using an AI trained on open source or source available code is not a clean room implementation. IANAL.
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