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Some purists may say learning is compressing

• Syzygies 5y ago
  Yes! In every form, lossy compression is distilling meaningful information from noise. This is a great legal question as it concerns our use of machine agents. We can learn from copyrighted literature or code that we read. Why can't our agents?
  • AlotOfReading 5y ago
    Because the process is different. You and any computer agent are allowed to learn the functional, non-copyrightable elements of fast inverse sqrt. When you need that functionality, you can write code that implements your understanding of those non-copyrightable elements and gain copyright over the resulting creative expression. What you can't do is copy all of the creative expression in the original (such as comments) without complying with the terms of the license. Moreover, reproducing the magic constants is a strong indication that your process didn't independently derive your code because the constants used in the original are unique and non-optimal.
    • anticensor 5y ago
      I should include a term in my licenses that licensees explicitly waive their rights to fair use and/or fair dealing.
  • Zababa 5y ago
    > We can learn from copyrighted literature or code that we read. Not everywhere. Emulators communities often prohibit people from contributing if they've read the original code to protect themselves from copyright claims.