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Did they have a license to use public source code as a data source for data set though?
by varispeed 5y ago
Did they have a license to use public source code as a data source for data set though?
- smackjer 5y agoYes, it's public source code.
- haimez 5y agoPublic doesn’t mean it’s not encumbered by copyrights
- ggreer 5y agoPretty much everything is trained on copyrighted content: machine translation software, TWDNE, DALL-E, and all the GPTs. Software people are bringing this up now because it's their ox being gored. It's the same as when furries got upset about This Fursona Does Not Exist.[1][2] 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23093911 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23093911 2. https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/gfam2y/furries_creator_of_this_fursona_does_not_exist/ https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/gfam2y/furries_...
- tremon 5y agoTo expand on your argument, pretty much every person is trained on copyrighted content too. Doesn't make their generated content automatically subject to copyright either.
- user-the-name 5y agoThis is an argument for why this is a bigger problem, not a smaller one.
- malka 5y agoyeah, except that Oracle and google have way more lawyer power than furries artists.
- ganzuul 5y agoYou have no idea how much money they make. Some of them have payment plans for commissions.
- oalae5niMiel7qu 5y agoIf it's BSD-licensed, the encumbrance doesn't matter much.
- Jeff_Brown 5y agoGod I wish contracts were encoded semantically rather than as plain text. I just tried to look through Github's terms of service[1]. I'd search for "Github can <verb> with <adjective> code" if I could. Instead I'm giving up. [1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-of-service https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...
- int_19h 5y agoA world in which all laws and contracts were required to be written in Lojban would be interesting.
- Jeff_Brown 5y agoThat looks hard. More politically feasible might be a language I've unfortunately forgotten the name of, ordinary English but with some extra rules designed to eliminate ambiguity -- every noun has to carry a specifier like "some" or "all" or "the" or "a", etc.
- ganzuul 5y agoLegalese might be similar to code, and there is lots of interest in making law machine readable. So don't give up; check back later.