Nina KalininaMar 5

Please excuse me while I'm having a little existential crisis, lol.

And if that wasn't bad enough, Mozilla has embraced AI (in its code, too), while Linux considers relaxing AI code policy and has some examples of patches co-authored by LLMs.

I am still yet to think hard about what I want to do about it. But the world I knew is no more.

Show threadNina KalininaMar 5
This is prompted by the news of python's chardet being completely "rewritten" by GenAI to replace its original LGPL with MIT, by the way. It's free for all now, it seems.
Show threadKirtai 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 5
@nina_kali_nina
Wait a second. Isn't the output of GenAI supposed to be public domain?
Show threadNina Kalinina
@kirtai well, maybe, but I'm afraid the courts in the US are going to be on the side of "big tech" if it ever goes to the court again. And even if it is accepted to be public domain, it isn't much better conceptually: the FOSS movement will be mostly destroyed by slop; if a slop machine can strip away the copyright, the copyright is unenforceable
Mar 5 at 11:45pmWeb
Show threadKirtai 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 5
@nina_kali_nina
Sadly true but reminding these "developers" that everything they produce this way is unlicensable may be useful to deter them.
Show threadF4GRX SébastienMar 6
@nina_kali_nina @kirtai https://www.techspot.com/news/111553-us-supreme-court-not-interested-enforcing-copyright-ai.html it was for pics, but code is similar.