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Finally someone said it. I honestly was wondering why no one was complaining about this… I’ve worked on some open source myself, licensed it GPL, and never intended for it to be used as training data.

Doesn’t the GPL cover shit like this? There should be mass lawsuits hitting any AI that used open source software and didn’t just specifically use BSD projects or something.

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AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

If you train an LLM on GPL code, it should be illegal to sell that LLM and use it commercially without revealing ALL THE SOURCE you used and the source to regenerate that model.

Also if that LLM is used to generate code - that code must also be GPL.

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- terranoid@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I’d love to see lawsuits force Microsoft and Nvidia and OpenAI to open source everything they had AI touch 😁
  
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Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yeah I mean they train ai on commercially copyrighted stuff like books that they straight up pirate so if that doesn’t stop them the open source community certainly won’t

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A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Doesn’t the GPL cover shit like this? There should be mass lawsuits

I hope it’ll happen eventually.

Currently the USA (and that’s where most of this shit comes from) is aggressively pro AI to the point of breaking the law with government support.

BTW what OP says has happened to Linux (at large) through Google/Android, too. The GPL hasn’t stopped them but surely put some limits on their exploitation of FOSS

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merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

never intended for it to be used as training data.

You could have chosen a different license than the GPL.

Doesn’t the GPL cover shit like this?

No. Didn’t you read the license you used?

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- balsoft@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  GPL absolutely should cover shit like this. Training an LLM on your code makes it definitionally a derivative work, therefore it must be licensed under GPL too (with limited fair use exceptions which shouldn’t apply here). The problem is that the US government is not willing to enforce this at all, because it is owned by the same billionaires as the AI companies.
  
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  - merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Training an LLM on your code makes it definitionally a derivative work
    
    If so, then every painter who studied Picasso is making Picasso-derived works. That’s not how copyright works.
    
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