Emacs in the Age of Magic

Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic by lettergram on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:32PM (#50459721)

Here's a fun question - if AI is trained on OSS, particularly with licenses that are copy left... wouldn't that make all the code it generates copy left? wouldn't that mean the weights themselves should all be open sourced.

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Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic by coldtea on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:33PM (#50459737)

Only if the lawmakers and courts side with the way less powerful FOSS side in interpreting the impact of those licenses on the derivative LLM code.

So, no.

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Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic by lettergram on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @08:38PM (#50461890)

Well, politically, if AI is seen as threatening, they'll see siding with FOSS as beneficial.

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Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic by coldtea on Thursday November 12, 2026 @07:19AM (#50466135)

Threatening to whom? Politicians are in the pockets of the same billionares controlling AI. And even if they weren't, AI is useful to them for controlling everything.

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Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic by hobo123 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:46PM (#50471199)

Once you have read enough copyleft code, will you only produce copyleft code from now on?

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