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I answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775387 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775387 I will continue to hold that position until such a
by za_creature 6d ago
I answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775387 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775387
I will continue to hold that position until such a time that we get a better answer than:
> we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models
- andsoitis 6d agoI hear you, but I think you might miss my point, which is while LLMs are clearly trained on copyrighted material, what they produce (their output) is NOT a copy of a specific code snippet they were trained on in a way that you would say "that's a copy from this code base".
- za_creature 6d agoOpen source also requires attribution for derivative works [1], not just verbatim copies. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Derivative_work&oldid=1372562008 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Derivative_work&o...
- andsoitis 6d agoThanks for that link to the definition and requirements for something to be considered a derivative work. I think my interpretation, based on your link, holds: unless the LLM output (transformation) substantially bears the original source code author's creation and personality, there is nothing to give attribution to.