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Not that it will happen, but the most karmic result of the proliferation of AI coding would be that a bunch of commercial code gets GPL tainted and forced to be open sourced

Will "scifantasy" Frank@scifantasy.bsky.social

Aaron Swartz was hounded and persecuted by overzealous prosecutors for a mass JSTOR download until he committed suicide. Sam Altman says that he deserves to violate copyright law in perpetuity because otherwise he can't make a fortune from a large language model. We are in the wrong timeline.

15/10/26, 1:15 am1 repost26 likes

Benjamin راغب

@benzado.com

Have you seen anyone propose a GPL-style license that says if you feed the licensed work into an LLM, its output must be licensed on the same terms? Only issue I can think of is the courts have said LLM output is not copyrightable. But I suppose you could require the model weights be published.

Matthew Kay

@mjskay.com

Given their foundations in open source code it's not unreasonable to claim that the only ethical uses of LLMs for programming are in open source projects

Matthew Kay

@mjskay.com

The more I think about it the more this principle feels right. Okay so you trained a big ol model on the entire wealth of human knowledge? Cool, whatever you make with it belongs to all of us.

denom.bsky.social

@denom.bsky.social

When i was a child i couldn't see how laws are shaped around incumbency and power. Now i find myself astounded at how dramatically that is the case. But maybe in a revolutionary moment, change like this is possible?