Comment on Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 12 hours agoGiven that you’ve presumably looked at open source code in the past, and got more proficient (however marginally) as a result, does all your future code now belong to the GPL?
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 5 hours ago
This comparison is invalid. Training a neural network algorithm is not equivalent to human learning. We are talking about data stored in machine learning models owned and controlled by multi-billion dollar corporations.
It has already been demonstrated multiple times that original training data can be reproduced completely from models, so yes, they are data storage systems. When they reproduce code which they have previously stored, even only in part, that is a derivative work. Adding extra steps to the transcribing process doesn’t make it any less a copy of the original.
Epp@lemmus.org 3 hours ago
Only when the date in question is so oblique as to the original source being the only place in which the data exists, which is neither common, nor useful in practice.