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I think this is an interesting problem that will likely be discussed for the forseeable future. On one hand, finding large datasets where you have a legal guara

by est31 5y ago

I think this is an interesting problem that will likely be discussed for the forseeable future. On one hand, finding large datasets where you have a legal guarantee that all data is licensed for thus purpose is impossible. If you say that a license needs to be obtained, you'd make such products impossible. If you say that a license does not need to be obtained though, you get the situation that you can launder licenses. Either GPL, or even proprietary licenses if it ran through a decompiler. The pessimist in me believes that this fundamental conflict will be used by big established players to get rid of smaller competition, and otherwise won't benefit anyone. Ultimately, this question also involves one of humans. When I read a book on programming, and use some of the tricks I've just learned in a project of mine, do I violate the publisher's copyright? Do humans posess a "license to launder" that silicon training circuits lack?

simion314 5y ago
>When I read a book on programming, The author and the book were published for the exact this reason, you learning stuff . But in this case situation is different, someone creates a blackbox program and puts in all of your code that is under license X . Then they sell this blackbox program, and depending on what input people give to the blackbox it will output parts of your stuff. If your stuff is original then the chance is that most of it will be inside the blackbox and it will be spit out with the right inputs, and copyright and licenses are now washed. Personally I am surprised on how amateurish this seems to be, seems like they used mostly text as input and not something more advanced , if MS did not put the properietary code they own in the blackbox then I am also suspicious.