News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI. Parent comment

Re:Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI by dcow on Friday April 28, 2023 @11:44AM (#35742723)
Yep. It’s an affinity scam. It has nothing to do with GPT4. IIRC it’s just some model with a GPT-like interface offered for free. Once they change their name to something that isn't trying to catch GPT4’s sails in an completely dishonest and scummy manner, we can discuss it further.

To the CrabLang folks,: this is why you care about trademarks. So when someone does this you can protect your project from scammers.

EDIT I might be conflating GPT4all with this… which doesn't make the situation any better and kinda proves my point. This type of scam is confusing and deceptive. And this one seems actively malignant.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI by anonymousiam on Friday April 28, 2023 @12:38PM (#35743706)
The DMCA is not applicable to trademarks.

https://theholmesfirm.com/takedown-notices-why-trademarks-an...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI by ranger_danger on Friday April 28, 2023 @11:53AM (#35742919)
>this is why you care about trademarks

Yes but often FOSS projects and their developers do not have the money or desire to: enforce any trademark or license, apply for the trademark itself, or market the trademark in any meaningful way.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Gpt4free repo given takedown notice by OpenAI by dcow on Friday April 28, 2023 @02:55PM (#35745545)
I should have said (to the CrabLang folks): this is why the Rust foundation cares about trademarks.
[ Parent | on HN ]