alt Hacker News> When I write code, what I write and how I write it is informed by having read countless source code files over my education and my career. Just as I ingest all that experience to fine-tune how my later code is written, so does the LLM from the code it's seen.
You are presumably human. We have granted humans specific exemptions in copyright law. We have not granted that to LLMs. Why are we so eager to?
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Ok, so I use the LLM. I use the tool. Can I now apply the exemption to me?
Are you telling me that I can use the thing, but I can't use it if I process it through an LLM? It get slippery, fast.
Because that allows us to create useful tools that we didn't have before. For me it feels like a carpenter going from a hand-saw to an electrical saw. Still requires the skills of a good carpenter, but faster and easier.
I'm not sure where in our lawbooks there are laws that specifically target humans to the exclusion of human-operated tools.
There's also a TON of irony here. What an about face it is, for the community at large* to switch from "information wants to be free, we support copyleft and FOSS" to leaning so heavily on an incredibly conservative reading of IP law.