I assumed it was real because people seem to be doing this for real: theregister.com/…/ai_kills_software_licensing/

And outside of that, all the gen AI coders seem to be ignoring that apparently AI is plagiarizing training data too. And it seems to happen randomly and unpredictably even for who you would think are expert users, Microslop themselves: pcgamer.com/…/microsoft-uses-plagiarized-ai-slop-…