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Anthropic now offers a free vulnerability-finding service for open-source software (www.engadget.com)
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[โ€“] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

One of the freedoms of free software is that people can study it and use it however they want, for whatever purpose they want.

Given that Anthropic and OpenAI derive their profits from their models being closed source rather than open source, I don't think they should be assisted in devouring freely-accessible data in their endeavor.

Not all developers may see it this way, but those contributing code to LLMs are training them for free at the expense of career opportunities for fellow developers, all the while Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies rake in money for maintaining access to content that isn't theirs.

[โ€“] dan@upvote.au 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't think they should be assisted in devouring freely-accessible data in their endeavor

How is this assisting them, though? I see it as two different options:

  1. They use the open-source code without giving anything back; or
  2. They use the open-source code and help improve the project by reporting security issues.

In any case, a fundamental feature of both free and open-source software is that anyone can use it, regardless of if you like them or agree with them or not, without discrimination. You could instead use a license that forbids AI training, but then your code would no longer be free or open-source.