> There are other reasons to dislike LLMs and fear or hate what AI is doing to the world. But people who feel something was "stolen" from them, who now close their blogs and turns repos private because LLMs - they're just showing they had ulterior motives for their work - which again, is fine if they were up-front about it.

100% this. Why should I be bothered that some of my work that I released freely to the world is now potentially used by millions of people as a small part of the knowledge in a state of the art AI system? I am honored!

But I guess some people just have different motivations for releasing their code, and require explicit attribution to feel honored enough to make it all worth it for them. Not me, though.