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This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 days ago by artifex@piefed.social to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Malus, which is a piece of "satire" but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell, redistribute, etc. the software without crediting the original developers. But I have a hard time with the "clean room" argument since the LLM doing the behind-the-scenes work has already ingested the entire corpus of open source software -- and somehow the output of the LLMs isn't considered a derivative work.

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[–] artifex@piefed.social 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yep. But good luck getting a court to agree with you.

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Omg Imagine if half of the case is just an ML course to teach the jury what training data is.

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Jury #7: "But it is fine to do it because Facebook said so"

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

And you teach all of them the amount of data facebook takes from them. ALL of it.

[–] searabbit@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That sounds painful. Absolutely no shade to the lovely older person I overheard today say: "so how do you get the little folks on the screen to know what buttons I pressed?"

But I'm guessing it could be similar to music copywrite law where jurors don't have to understand audio engineering to know two samples sound the same.

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nope the class will be dropped down to teach all the basics and then up to vector databases and word embeddings to understand the case.

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I would expect the jury to be nothing less than world-class experts on statistics, linear algebra, and calculus once the case is decided.

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 22 hours ago

Exactly, the public will be educated one way or the other!