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It’s trained on publicly available code, so what would be the point of that? If you’re looking to specifically infringe the copyright of code available on the o
by mistercow 2y ago
It’s trained on publicly available code, so what would be the point of that? If you’re looking to specifically infringe the copyright of code available on the open web, using an LLM code completion engine is just about the most roundabout and unreliable way to achieve that.
- m4rtink 2y agoIsn't this all about turning community developed GPL licensed code into your own (LLM regurgitatetd) code that you can than make proprietary, saving a lot of money and not giving back anything to the original community?
- mistercow 2y agoThat's not generally how the legal system works. If you've disabled the duplication filter, and then generated substantial amounts of duplicated GPL code and then violated the GPL license, a judge is not going to say "Well, fair enough, you used the loophole of copying code through an LLM, after all." They're going to treat it as a willful copyright violation, the same as if you'd just copied and pasted it. And again, I have to ask: why? Why would you think that putting tons of time and effort into tricking the model into repeating memorized code is going to be a better investment than just using it normally to implement the functionality you want?
- bdw5204 2y agoIt is but "AI" is considered such an "important" technology at the moment that no judge is going to want to be the one that "destroys innovation" by enforcing copyright law. If the perception of the technology changes in the political world in an unfavorable manner, these cases would go the other way or (if there's precedent) they'll pass laws overturning the precedents.