Are there any licenses out there with LLM usage restrictions? : r/opensource
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When you talk about spreading the influence of work, doesn’t that imply some kind of attribution?
When you talk about spreading the influence of work, doesn’t that imply some kind of attribution?
LLMs have no way to attribute the work they copy and modify to the OP, so how exactly is it any benefit to the OP for oligarchs to be stealing the OP’s code then using it to sell services to other people for a profit (assuming LLMs/AI eventually becomes profitable, that is)? OP isn’t getting any credit for the effort they put in.
What you seem to be suggesting is that there is no distinction to be made between:
* humans sharing and learning from each others’ work as is made possible with copyright licensing
* massive corporations and academic institutions copying art and source code without permission and without attribution
But there is a major difference which I have mentioned twice: attribution. Attribution is a major component of the licensing under which most open source software is distributed. When I copy or modify and redistribute software under an open source license, the terms of the license I am copying almost always require that I attribute the original work to the original author. No LLMs that I am aware of are currently doing that and many of them, when it comes to textual content, can easily be induced to repeat large chunks of the source material verbatim.
You might say: yeah well what OpenAI and Google Gemini and COPYPASTEMCFUCKASHIT LLMs are doing is considered fair use.
My response to “duh, duhr, duh, its fair use” is: where the fuck where LLMs when the fair use doctrine was established? Why do oligarchs get to retroactively justify their bad behavior by applying old legal doctrine to novel situations in a way that most copyright holders had no way of anticipating when they decided to release their material open source in the first place?