Comment on Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use

Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pardon my ignorance but how do you steal code if it’s open source?

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  • hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t follow the license that it was distributed under.

    Commonly, if you use open source code in your project and that code is under a license that requires your project to be open source if you do that, but then you keep yours closed source.

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    • fidodo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I still wouldn’t call it stealing, but I guess “broke open source code licenses” doesn’t have the same impact, but I’d prefer accuracy.

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      • bamboo@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s piracy, distributing copyrighted works against the terms of its license. I agree stealing is not really the right word.

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  • Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He took GPLv3 code, which is a copyleft license that requires you share your source code and license your project under the same terms as the code you used. You also can’t distribute your project as a binary-only or proprietary software. When pressed, they only released the code for their front end, remaining in violation of GPLv3.

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