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Former Coinbase worker accused of ‘stealing’ code for PearAI

By Editorial Board Published September 30, 2024 3 Min Read
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Former Coinbase worker accused of ‘stealing’ code for PearAI

A former Coinbase worker has been accused of stealing code and utilizing ChatGPT to illegally change the licensing of one other open-source AI coding agency to create PearAI.

Matthew Duke Pan, referred to as “Frying Pan,” claims to have made $270,000 a 12 months working for the crypto alternate earlier than quitting to make PearAI. Final Friday Pan introduced the AI agency had secured $500,000 in funding from the startup accelerator program YCombinator (YC).

Nonetheless, after Pan promoted PearAI on the YC occasion on X (previously Twitter), customers criticized the agency for “stealing” the code of fellow open-source AI code editor Proceed.dev and passing it off as its personal.

The unique submit that precipitated the backlash.

Somebody additionally claimed they illegally relicensed PearAI to an enterprise license. In response, Pan mentioned, “Dawg i chatgtp’d the license.” He added that he would change the license if there was an issue and claimed ”We busy constructing rn can’t be bothered with authorized.”

The founding father of YC, Garry Tan, responded to the backlash by defending Pan. He repeatedly famous that Proceed used an open-source Apache license and that he didn’t “understand why people are dragging a new project.”

Nonetheless, the conversion of Proceed’s Apache licensing to enterprise was repeatedly referred to as out for its illegality and Tan has since modified his stance, noting that the relicensing was “clearly a mistake,” and that it has been fastened now.

Respectfully, they relicensed the venture beneath an enterprise license. That’s each (1) not authorized and (2) not open supply.

— Charlie Marsh (@charliermarsh) September 29, 2024
A number of customers famous the relicensing was unlawful.

Pan’s X submit acquired a group notice over this era that mentioned PearAI “mass-replaced” all references of ‘Continue’ to ‘PearAI’ and used its code. However this notice was taken down and for the previous 24 hours, Pan has been out on harm management.

He referred to as the notice “objectively false” and claimed, “We are way too open and honest for this slander.”  Pan famous that PearAI’s GitHub “About” part states it’s a fork of VSCode and Proceed and claims that he has publicly credited Proceed for months on GitHub and in numerous YouTube movies. 

Protos has reached out to Frying Pan for remark. 

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