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dan@upvote.au 6 months agoMost licences require derivative works to be under the same or similar licence
Some, but probably not most. This is mostly an issue with “viral” licenses like GPL, which restrict the license of derivative works. Permissive licenses like the MIT license are very common and don’t restrict this.
MIT does say that “all copies or substantial portions of the Software” need to come with the license attached, but code generated by an AI is arguably not a “substantial portion” of the software.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
How do you verify that though?
And does the model need to include all of the licenses? Surely the “all copies or substantial portions” would apply to LLMs, since they literally include the source in the model as a derivative work. That’s fine if it’s for personal use (fair use laws apply), but if you’re going to distribute it (e.g. as a centralized LLM), then you need to be very careful about how licenses are used, applied, and distributed.
So I absolutely do believe that building a broadly used model is a violation of copyright, and that’s true whether it’s under an open source license or not.
dan@upvote.au 6 months ago
I agree with you, and don’t really have any answers :)
baggins@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
By comparing it to the original work.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
And how will you know what original work(s) to compare it to?
baggins@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
How do you know anything about anything an LLM generates? Presumably if you’re the author you would recognize your own work?