alt Hacker News1. Equality under the law is important in its own right. Even if a law is wrong, it isn’t right to allow particular corporations to flaunt it in a way that individuals would go to prison for.
2. GPL does not allow you to take the code, compress it in your latent space, and then sell that to consumers without open sourcing your code.
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> 2. GPL does not allow you to take the code, compress it in your latent space, and then sell that to consumers without open sourcing your code.
If AI training is found to be fair use, then that fact supercedes any license language.
> Even if a law is wrong, it isn’t right to allow particular corporations to flaunt it in a way that individuals would go to prison for.
No one goes to prison for this. They might get sued, but even that is doubtful.
> 1. Equality under the law is important in its own right. Even if a law is wrong, it isn’t right to allow particular corporations to flaunt it in a way that individuals would go to prison for.
We're talking about the users getting copyright-laundered code here. That's a pretty equal playing field. It's about the output of the AI, not the AI itself, and there are many models to choose from.
> GPL does not allow
Sure, that's what the paper says. Most people don't care what that says until some ramifications actually occur. E.g. a cease and desist letter. Maybe people should care, but companies have been stealing IP from individuals long before GPL, and they still do.