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nickffyesterday at 8:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

It seems to be a common view on HN that licenses and conditional access to websites should be ignored (i.e. WRT ad-blockers), but also that licenses on Open-Source Software repositories should be respected (i.e. WRT LLM training). I believe that holding these contradictory views is common, but the conflict would need to be resolved to come to a conclusion on how to proceed with LLM training.


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pseudalopexyesterday at 8:31 PM

There is no contradiction. Open source software licenses allow use without conditions. Ad blocker use does not distribute the modified web pages.

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technothrasheryesterday at 8:37 PM

You seem to be conflating copyright with access rights. Two very different things. Regardless of your feelings on either, there is no contradiction in holding different views on them.

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