Comment by lelanthran
14 hours ago
You dont know what GPL is?
It's not an unconditional gift, it's got strings attached.
AI training on GPL works is basically IP laundering, you're taking the product without paying the asking prices.
14 hours ago
You dont know what GPL is?
It's not an unconditional gift, it's got strings attached.
AI training on GPL works is basically IP laundering, you're taking the product without paying the asking prices.
I do know what it is, I've even read the licence in full!
What specific paragraph in the GPL prohibits training of AI on it? I guess it might be a matter of interpretation, but by my reading, it is allowed.
Ps. In the future, try to refrain from using demeaning rethorical questions like the one this comment starts with, it only serves to foster toxicity. Please and thank you Ds.
> What specific paragraph in the GPL prohibits training of AI on it? I guess it might be a matter of interpretation, but by my reading, it is allowed.
It's not a matter of interpretation - any derivative product is also GPL, and if you don't want the derivative product to be GPL, then don't use the original product.
Is reading source code using it? Can you restrict people from doing that? What actually makes a derivative work.
Can I put up a sign with a fact on it, can people who see the sign not use the fact unless they agree with my terms and conditions? That certainly would be the case if we went wiTh some sense of derived.
The law needs specifics for a reason, if it were down to what each individual felt it means in the moment it would be useless.
The most recent legal findings have said that training on legally acquired data does not violate copyright.
IP as a concept has always been equal parts dystopian and farcical, and efforts to enforce it have become increasingly strained over time. Property requires scarcity. Ideas aren’t scarce. My consumption of an idea is affected by your consumption of an idea.
AI has simply increased the intensity of this friction between IP and reality to a degree that it can’t be ignored or patched over any longer.