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This was a lot of words to say that LLMs aren't human. I agree they aren't human. Why do you think that training on GPL code that the model does not redistribut
by cjbprime 3y ago
This was a lot of words to say that LLMs aren't human. I agree they aren't human. Why do you think that training on GPL code that the model does not redistribute is a violation of copyright law?
- krapp 3y agoI don't think it's a violation of copyright law because the GPL, as far as I understand it, gives the humans training the model the right to do so, and as long as they don't redistribute it, I don't have a problem with it. Once that code starts getting distributed, as happens with Copilot, then I think it's a problem. I'm just pointing out (repetitiously, because arguments of the type "but humans do X" are made all the time with LLMs) that the fact that a human brain doesn't violate copyright when a human reads and studies copyrighted code isn't relevant either way.
- cjbprime 3y agoI guess I don't agree that the analogy doesn't hold. You agree that the training isn't infringing, but you think my analogy is not the reason why. I think it is the reason why. Use without redistribution is not protected by copyright law; this covers uses by human readers without redistribution, and also use by computer programs without redistribution.