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Humans used to learn to code from copyrighted works (textbooks) without much reference to OSS or Free Software. Similarly, teaching ML models to code from copy
by benlivengood 4y ago
Humans used to learn to code from copyrighted works (textbooks) without much reference to OSS or Free Software. Similarly, teaching ML models to code from copyrighted works isn't going to violate copyright more frequently than a human might; and detecting exact copies should be pretty easy by comparing with the corpus used to train it. Software houses already have to worry about infringement of snippets, and things like Codex are just one more potential source.
- ipaddr 4y agoThose books were purchased and a license granted for such use.
- lmm 4y ago> Those books were purchased Sometimes. People also borrowed them, read them in libraries, or in later years looked at free textbooks online. > and a license granted for such use I never heard of such a thing, and it was never seen as necessary. No student checked the licenses on their textbooks before deciding whether they could read them.