Maybe it has to do with people stealing content to train AI? Atleast now if there is an opportunity to be a part of a lawsuit or smth they can claim they provided a licence. I dunno just a guess
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verstra@programming.dev 6 months agoBut whats the point of giving out a license along the comment? Are you giving permission to use your comment?
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onlinepersona@programming.dev 6 months ago
For non-commercial use, yes. Aka no closed-source AI.
verstra@programming.dev 6 months ago
Aaah, AI training data. That makes sense now