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Re:No Source Code == No Patent by grumbel on Monday April 17, 2023 @06:47AM (#35599007)
> copyright and license laundering

The nice thing is that this works in both directions. Just as Microsoft and Co. can train on people's data, nothing stops the people from training on Microsoft's chatbot output.

As long as we don't get any lawsuits derailing this practice, we actually might end up fine, as there is nothing that'll allow anybody to get ahead in AI without automatically provide a mountain of training data for the competition.

If that means the end of copyright right as we know it, I am all for it.

Re:No Source Code == No Patent by marginalia_nu on Monday April 17, 2023 @07:04AM (#35599111)
Microsoft &co doesn't (to my knowledge) train their LLMs on their internal source code.
Re:No Source Code == No Patent by tough on Monday April 17, 2023 @07:47AM (#35599372)
Windows has several codebases leaked no? Let's train a windows XP source code model for teh lulz
Re:No Source Code == No Patent by gpderetta on Monday April 17, 2023 @09:55AM (#35600738)
inbefore corps push for AI personhood to make them sign NDAs
Re:No Source Code == No Patent by marginalia_nu on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:52AM (#35602544)
I honestly don't think Microsoft puts much that value in source code that's from around the time Brendan Fraser was doing Mummy movies.