alt Hacker NewsSo this means you can not use AI for the majority of open source projects since GPL, MIT, BSD, etc are all copyright declarations and they'd be being made for code which you can not copyright.
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No it would mean the license does not apply to the parts of code written by AI.
wasnt there a case a while back, where GPL or LGPL code made its way into MIT licensed software via LLM? And they were forced to remove the copyleft code. I dont remember the details though.
Indeed, but people will continue to think vector search compaction similarity absolves folks of Trademark and Copyright liability.
As the dark specter of Disney Mickey Mouse looms over every LLM model involved in isomorphic and character plagiarism. Yes, even motion capture is considered a performance act in the guilds, so video reskinning an unlicensed performance act people make is also a liability.
It would sure save a lot of money if you don't get caught, so people are gonna try it for sure. =3
It will be interesting if or when someone tries to enforce that perspective. Good luck proving an online contributor used AI on a merge request.
Perhaps we'll have new iterations of FOSS licenses to adjust to legal declarations.
You can't enforce those licenses against AI-generated parts, because enforcement relies on the recipient having no other way to avoid copyright infringement.
However, there's no issue with including non-copyrightable code in otherwise copyrighted projects. There's already plenty of non-copyrightable code like auto-generated boilerplate.