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Re:I'm Archiving Picocrypt by Octoth0rpe on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @08:07AM (#44810881)
Given Meta's history of torrenting every book it could get its hands on for training, I'm not convinced that the majority of AI companies would respect that license. Maybe if we also had a better way to prove that such code was part of the training set and see a couple of solid legal victories with compensation awarded.
Re:I'm Archiving Picocrypt by immibis on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @09:38AM (#44811845)
They're also getting sued for it, and the judge ruled they had no right to torrent those books so now it's just a matter of calculating how many trillions Meta has to pay, then extracting it from them.
Re:I'm Archiving Picocrypt by Octoth0rpe on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @09:57AM (#44812114)
Because Meta got caught. I'm not convinced that every random OSS lib will have the resources to audit every model out there for a hypothetical GPL+no training violation.
Re:I'm Archiving Picocrypt by bayindirh on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @09:58AM (#44812132)
I'm pretty astounded that "The Stack" at least did and effort, and continue to do so by weeding out GPL or similar strong copyleft source code from their trove, and even implemented an opt-out mechanism [0].

They look like saints when compared to today's companies.

[0]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/in-the-stack