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https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Being able to learn from the code is a core part of the ideology embedded into the GPL. Not only that, but LLMs learning from code is fair use.
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jeroenhd • today at 8:59 AM
That freedom for many free licenses comes with the caveat that you provide basic attribution and the same freedom to your users.
LLMs don't (cannot, by design) provide attribution, nor do LLM users have the freedom to run most of these models themselves.
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> Being able to learn from the code is a core part of the ideology embedded into the GPL.
I have to imagine this ideology was developed with humans in mind.
> but LLMs learning from code is fair use
If by “fair use” you mean the legal term of art, that question is still very much up in the air. If by “fair use” you mean “I think it is fair” then sure, that’s an opinion you’re entitled to have.