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Re:Invasive Diffusion: one unwilling illustrator found her t... by benlivengood on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @01:43PM (#33424616)
Humans used to learn to code from copyrighted works (textbooks) without much reference to OSS or Free Software. Similarly, teaching ML models to code from copyrighted works isn't going to violate copyright more frequently than a human might; and detecting exact copies should be pretty easy by comparing with the corpus used to train it. Software houses already have to worry about infringement of snippets, and things like Codex are just one more potential source.
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Re:Invasive Diffusion: one unwilling illustrator found her t... by ipaddr on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @02:09PM (#33425026)
Those books were purchased and a license granted for such use.
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Re:Invasive Diffusion: one unwilling illustrator found her t... by lmm on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @07:01PM (#33428948)
> Those books were purchased

Sometimes. People also borrowed them, read them in libraries, or in later years looked at free textbooks online.

> and a license granted for such use

I never heard of such a thing, and it was never seen as necessary. No student checked the licenses on their textbooks before deciding whether they could read them.

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