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Just like those art students you reference, engineers regularly find bits of code and regurgitate it in their projects. Stack Overflow gets its reputation for a
by sulam 4y ago
Just like those art students you reference, engineers regularly find bits of code and regurgitate it in their projects. Stack Overflow gets its reputation for a reason. They especially do this earlier in their careers, before they develop their own intuition and style, just like an art student.
Why would you treat the ML model (I very much hesitate to call it AI) differently in these two cases?
- theptip 4y agoSure, and doing so commercially and without attribution, especially when the code is not CC licensed, can be problematic. SO code is implicitly CC (and furthermore, contributed under the expectation that it will be used by anyone) so it’s not problematic to copy-pasta that code IMO. But copying blocks of code from a GPL-3 project would be, for example. To be clear I don’t think learning from (but not cloning) a GPL project is problematic. That is just what normal students do.