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All due respect to Carmack but I think his take is probably influenced by his investment in his own AI company. There doesn’t seem to be many on this space who
by agentultra 7mo ago
All due respect to Carmack but I think his take is probably influenced by his investment in his own AI company. There doesn’t seem to be many on this space who have any ethical or moral problems with profiting from the work of others and not contributing anything back to the commons. If we all intended our work in OSS the way he did maybe we’d all see it his way too.
Copy left licenses are generally intended, afaict, to protect the commons and ensure people have access to the source. AI systems seem to hide that. And they contribute nothing back.
Maybe they need updating, IANAL. But I’d be hesitant to believe that everyone should be as excited as Carmack is.
- throwerofways67 7mo agoCarmacks ai company explicitly does not work on LLMs though
- cholantesh 7mo agoPractically every major company in the LLM space claims to have a core mission of pursuing AGI, just like Keen.
- losvedir 7mo agoI don't understand what point you're trying to make. Keen isn't in the LLM space.
- markus_zhang 7mo agoI think it’s more than that. He is always pro performance, pro technology, and maybe libertarian, too.
- cholantesh 7mo agoThere's no maybe about it, he has openly identified as such.
- dundarious 7mo agoI don't think his AI company is the issue, it's that he desired the effect of a public domain/unlicense, a completely unfettered gift, while he was constrained by the business people to use a copyleft license. However, most people using a copyleft license are using it with (some) intent, and choosing it with (some) explicit preference over public domain/unlicenses, i.e., they are not intending it to be an unconstrained gift, they want a social dynamic of code recycling only in the open and with attribution (each optional and with variations depending on the license, but those are commonly desired constraints). It is of course fine to have his opinion, but if he thinks most people are in fact like him when they chose a copyleft license, then I think he's projecting rather than observing.