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Re:Do open source licences cover the Ship of Theseus? by Y_Y on Saturday June 10, 2023 @03:30PM (#36274151)
That sounds like something I could get an LLM to do. And then of course I can do it iteratively until all the code has been laundered. Maybe that's how Microsoft can justify training on all the GitHub data.
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Re:Do open source licences cover the Ship of Theseus? by jcranmer on Saturday June 10, 2023 @04:13PM (#36274607)
IANAL, but my understanding of copyright law jurisprudence is that using an LLM to automate the process is going to substantially increase the likelihood that you will be found to be infringing.
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Re:Do open source licences cover the Ship of Theseus? by foota on Saturday June 10, 2023 @04:16PM (#36274620)
I think, but I'm not sure, that they mean to write the tests, and then they'd be able to fix the implementation blindly?
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Re:Do open source licences cover the Ship of Theseus? by pjmlp on Saturday June 10, 2023 @07:08PM (#36276232)
Except the detail about what licenses were used for the learning model.

It remains to be tested in court.

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Re:Do open source licences cover the Ship of Theseus? by DowsingSpoon on Saturday June 10, 2023 @11:28PM (#36277711)
It’s entirely possible that the model and all of its outputs will be determined to be derivative works of the training inputs. If that happens then, oh boy, not good things for anyone using it, I’m sure.
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