Ask HN: Why is it OK for Cursor and Windsurf not to credit their model

Why did you not credit the computer, keyboard, internet provider in your post?

When you fly in an airplane do you care what engines they’re using? Do you care what avionics subsystems are installed and what SoCs they utilize?

What makes this situation any different? It’s just that LLMs are the new hotness. That will fade.

Why is it OK for AI models to don't credit the training data, even if they reproduce the code almost verbatim?

The AI companies are not big fans of crediting - once they get access to _any_ learning data, all attribution disappears. So I am pretty surprised you are even asking this question - of course they won't credit anything they don't have to. This is in their ethics.

(Now if the customer requires it, they will expend the effort... I am sure if you pay them enough money, they will credit anyone you want)

Outrage over uncredited models... built on uncredited data... Poetic.