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I think AI will render software licenses and copyright irrelevant long before a hypothetical evil GPL-4 gets released. Most new (corporate-sponsored!) software
by ronsor 8mo ago
I think AI will render software licenses and copyright irrelevant long before a hypothetical evil GPL-4 gets released.
Most new (corporate-sponsored!) software is already under permissive licenses anyway.
- mikkupikku 8mo agoTrue.. my hope is that open weight models will progress to the point where they become viable coding agents for normies, so that even if open source dies with copyright, we will still nonetheless see a renaissance in people controlling their own computers, being able to create their own programs to solve their own problems. HyperCard on steroids, that anybody can use with no technical background. We're not there yet even for frontier models, but maybe in a few more years..
- anthk 8mo agoIf any AI's will be sued into oblivion from Copyright holders until the bubble collapses into itself due to LLM rot over time due to the lack of curated human input.
- ronsor 8mo agoThis is quite frankly not a serious scenario. Once the label "national security" gets affixed to anything, you'd better be sure it's not going away. Also, half of all AI development is in China. Why would China care about Western copyright holders, or rather, why would they start caring?
- anthk 8mo agoBecause China it's making good Wuxia movies today and they woudn't neither like being ripped off if they exported either their movies or manhua to the West.