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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by diggan on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:03AM (#43423634)
Huh? FOSS licenses work exactly like designed! I'm literally using MIT because I don't give a fuck what people do with the code I publish, limiting it to "humans" or restricting the usage makes it very not FOSS.

Sure, if you want to try to prevent AI training by licensing, do that, but it's no longer FOSS, so please don't call it that.

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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by fsflover on Thursday March 20, 2025 @12:11PM (#43425144)
> I'm literally using MIT because I don't give a fuck what people do with the code I publish

MIT license requires this:

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Do the AI companies follow this requirement?

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Re:FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies by diggan on Thursday March 20, 2025 @12:12PM (#43425167)
> Do the AI companies follow this requirement?

I haven't seen any LLMs being able to reproduce full copies or even "substantial portions" of any existing software, unless we're talking "famous" functions like those from Quake and such.

You have any examples of that happening? I might have missed it

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