Comment by lo_zamoyski
5 months ago
W.r.t. intent, yes. But w.r.t. content, we are long past a situation where it is unrealistic enough to function as satire.
While such tactics would render certain OSS software licenses absurd, the tactic itself, as a means to get around them, is entirely sound. It just reveals the flawed presupposition of such licenses. And I'm not sure there is really any way to patch them up now.
It would also entirely obviate the need for those very same OSS licenses, if LLMs can simply do a clean-room reimplementation of any copywritten software whatsoever.
Thats a bit more difficult as you have to somehow leak or hack the proprietary code first to train the initial llm.
It will be like Galaxy Quest - they saw the historical records, copied them and then ... still needed humans to help them :)