Luís de SousaOct 29

"If we don't recognize that #FOSS isn't just a licensing regime but civic infrastructure, then the next generation of developers will inherit a world where coding is privatized, history is obscured, and the Internet itself becomes another closed platform of code labeled public domain by LLM-powered chatbots that is locked up and proprietary."

https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-open-source-may-not-survive-the-rise-of-generative-ai/

#OpenSource #LLM #AI

Why open source may not survive the rise of generative AI

Generative AI may be eroding the foundation of open source software. Provenance, licensing, and reciprocity are breaking down.

ZDNET
Show threadLioh
@luis_de_sousa in general I don't like so much this kind of articles as they are alarming and very one sided. They don't respect the daily effort of people like my brother @eloquence who is building reliable and trustworthy common resources using AI. https://permacommons.org/
Permacommons - Minding the Future

Building a permanent home for useful shared resources maintained with AI assistance

Permacommons
Oct 30 at 8:16amWeb
Show threadLuís de SousaOct 30

@Lioh You miss the point. The article is not against #AI per se, but they way it is being employed by software corporations.

As someone involved in various #OpenSource projects I can guarantee the content of the article rings very true.

Show threadLiohOct 30
@luis_de_sousa ah, I understand. The question then is if copyleft is still necessary if everything will be public domain.
Show threadLuís de SousaOct 31

@Lioh That is one of the questions.

However, "public domain" does not really exist in Europe. As far as I can tell, here you cannot claim a piece of work "does not have an author". I guess a good deal of jurisprudence is necessary to figure all this out. And the meantime we have to keep #OpenSource alive somehow.