“The MIT licence explicitly allows this, and has no carveouts to protect against bad faith actors.”
Somebody lifted unfinished feature code out of the developers’ personal forks and ran it through an LLM to hide where it came from. The goal was to replace the project and sell Linux on Apple Silicon as their own. MIT asks for attribution. A chatbot strips it in seconds. Expect more projects to go copyleft, and expect the launderers to ignore the GPL too.