So, I'm going to show you the company
that I think is just super dystopian.
All right. So, there's a little bit of a
website today called Malice. Liberate
opensource.
Now, what does Malice do, you ask? What
pray does Malice do? Which, by the way,
I love this. Uh, if you zoom in, notice
that it's like left aligned here. If you
zoom in, it's it's centered.
Cool, man. Hey, cool.
Cool website, dog. Really, really think
you're really think you're pretty
awesome. Anyway, so what they do is that
they take a proprietary AI robots,
independently recreate any open-source
project from scratch.
The result, legally distinct code with
corporate friendly licensing. No
attribution, no copy left, no problems.
So I thought this was satire. Okay,
honestly I thought so. So so so okay. So
yes, someone said this is satire, right?
It's a satire website. So I that's what
I thought. I thought it was a satire
website. So just to make sure that it is
actually a satire website, I did the
only thing you're supposed to do.
I went and purchased something.
I went and hired them. I went and copied
out a little bit of a project. Oh, good
thing I didn't do that. Anyways, okay,
good. This right here is how much it
would take to copy some project. I
forget if it's React or something like
that, right? You could copy some larger
project. All right, but then I was going
through and I decided to buy Malice.
Now, I can't remember if I can click
this one or not, so we're just not going
to click it. I bought malice. Okay. I
bought Dude, I thought I just I thought
I just docked myself here. Hold on. Let
me just see if I can show this one.
I mean, it has my session ID.
The problem is I don't even know what
session ID could possibly do or not do
in this situation. Okay. I don't even
know if I could get screwed or not
screwed with it. I don't know what could
possibly happen. So, we're just not
going to click it. Anyways, so I bought
it and oh, there's my session ID.
Anyways, uh there we go. So, I was able
to clone out is number and left pad.
All right. Fantastic. Well, there goes
my session ID. Not really sure what it
is. There it is. Um
then I was able to do this. This
is
is number, right? Just leaked a little
bit. I leaked a little bit. A little bit
of cinema, people. Look, this is is
number. And if you go over here and you
go to uh is let's see uh what did I call
this one? Malice. Did I call malice?
What the heck? Oh no. I called it test
because I just didn't even think it was
true. Uh I did is number real. Let's go
into here. Let's do that and go right to
here. Here is is number.
So that that's one. Here's what I got
back out.
What I did is I took the contents of his
number.
Yes, I took the contents of it.
Whoopsies. Uh, and I Let's see. Hold on.
We can do this again. I can go like
this. I can jump in here and I can go CD
is number real. And I can go uh node
test.
Uh, what is it? Uh, npm run test. There
we go. 111 passing things. I can copy
over here from is number the fake one
that I got generated. And I'm going to
put that right here. Rerun test all 111
pass.
Yeah.
Yeah, it copied
it copied. They're they're vastly
different. I paid uh I paid uh 50 cents
for this. Just a quick f Just a quick
fitty. just quick fitty for uh for these
two things. And so that means uh dang
it. Why do I keep doing that? Uh index.
Oh my gosh.
I don't have a couple things set up, so
it keeps acting goofy here. Okay, so I
have this running right here. So, okay,
let me uh pull up this guy and then
let's go over here.
Oh, see I have node modules.
Everything's screwed up. Okay, this is
not some thing I want to do. So, there
you go. You can see that it it's very
very different. This one uses number is
finite. This one actually generates an
is finite on here. Checks to see if it's
not a, you know, it does a couple
different things right here. And then it
does this whole like value equals value.
This one does num minus num equals zero.
This one says so this one is different.
So it does check like hey if you are a
number then is finite number which is
funny because it rechecks for ready.
Like this is like the most classic AI
generated code of your lifetime. Like
look at this. Look at look at that. The
most classic of all time.
very annoying. Yeah. Anyways, so
that's what
that is what we're seeing right here is
that Malice appears to be a legitimate
company. I thought this wasn't a
legitimate company because honestly
these things these things read so
stupid. Is your legal team frustrated
with attribution clause? Tired of
putting portions of this software in
your documentation? Those maintainers
worked for free. Why should they get
credit?
That reads like satire,
right? Like
that that's satire, right?
No, it does not appear to be satire.
Does your company forbid AGPL code? One
wrong import and suddenly your entire
proprietary codebase must be open
sourced. The horror. That's actually
true. I I do hate viral licensing. So, I
actually I mean I agree in the
theoretical that I hate like GPL. Uh I
really dislike the virality of it. I
just don't use whatever is GPL. You know
what I mean? Like call me oldfashioned.
I just don't use it. License compliance
overhead, tracking licenses around
hundreds of dependencies, legal reviews
taking weeks, third party audits,
finding issues. What if you could just
not deal with any of that?
Now, here's the craziest part of it all.
Are you ready for the craziest part?
We thought AI was coming for our jobs.
AI
went for legal first.
I'm just throwing it out there. They
just straight up went for legal first.
Somehow they they're bypassing around
legal at companies. Crazy. Uh yes, the
site is satire. Obviously it it Well, it
sounds like satire except for you can do
it except for it works
and you pay money for it. How like
really like how long is satire? When
does satire stop? I was able to pay
money. I was able to copy a library.
No, it's not both. There is no such
thing as both. That's the thing is it
can't be both. if you take money. You
can't be like, "Yo, it's a joke." Also,
that that'll be $100. It's like, "Sorry,
that's not uh that's not how satire
works." Like, satire's where you make a
joke and then people go, "Oh, that's
funny." They're making fun of something.
Comedians get paid for jokes. Shut up,
Zanus. It's a prank, bro. Bro, it's a
prank.
No,
no, no, not at all. Anyways, so I just
thought that this was just like
horrible. I'm going to do an actual
video on this. I just thought I'd just
show you guys. Uh, this is I I think
this honestly, I'm just being real.
think that this was completely
uh I think this was just completely AI
generated website by a company that's
just simply trying to make money and
that's