One of the four essential freedoms is the freedom to study the software and modify it. Studying means training your brain on the open source code. Can one use their brain to write proprietary code after they studied some copylefted code?
If you study a code base then implement something similar yourself without attribution, there is a good chance that you are doing a form of plagiarism.
In other contexts like academic writing this approach might be considered a pretty clear and uncontroversial case of plagiarism.
There’s no such a word as plagiarism in free licenses nor in copyright laws. One could violate copyrights or patents or not. Copyleft licenses do not forbid what you call plagiarism. If you want to forbid this as well as training LLMs on your code, you need a new type of license. However I’m unsure if such a license could be considered free by FSF or approved by OSI.
Plagiarism is a form of copyright infringement if there are substantial similarities.
Open source licenses build on top of intellectual property laws.
Licenses like GPL were made to destroy copyright from the inside
LLMs are tools. They’re not replacements for human creativity. They are not reliable sources of truth. They are interesting tools and toys that you can play with.
So have fun and play with them.
LLMs consume vast amounts of energy and freash water and release lots of carbon. That is enough for me to not want to “play” with them.
I have a solution its called china
They have solar panels those neither use water nor produce co2/ch4, they can train the AI (the energy-intensive part)
Then you download the AI from the internet and can use it 100000x and it will use less energy than a washing machine, and neither consume water nor produce co2/ch4
That’s only because they’re implemented haphazardly to save as much as possible and produce as fast as possible and basically cut any possible corner
And that’s only caused by the leadership of these companies. AI in general is okay. LLM’s are meh but I don’t specifically see the LLM concept as the devil the same way shovels weren’t the devil during the gold rush.
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