Comment by ThrowawayR2
6 months ago
The FSF funded some white papers a while ago on CoPilot: https://www.fsf.org/news/publication-of-the-fsf-funded-white.... Take a look at the analysis by two academics versed in law at https://www.fsf.org/licensing/copilot/copyright-implications... starting with §II.B that explains why it might be legal.
Bradley Kuhn also has a differing opinion in another whitepaper there (https://www.fsf.org/licensing/copilot/if-software-is-my-copi...) but then again he studied CS, not law. Nor has the FSF attempted AFAIK to file any suits even though they likely would have if it were an open and shut case.
All of the most capable models I use have been clearly trained on the entirety of libgen/z-lib. You know it is the first thing they did, it is like 100TB.
Some of the models are even coy about it.
The models are not self aware of their training data. They are only aware of what the internet has said about previous models’ training data.
I am not straight up asking them. We know the pithy statement about that word.