woelkchen comments on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I think one way is to make people realize that there is a concept in copyright called Threshold of Originality, meaning that because machine generated output in itself is not creative work, it's not copyrightable. You can do literally anything with it, the licenses attached don't matter. The GPL is not enforceable and no proprietary EULA is enforceable.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 0 points 2 months ago*

Conversely it might already be copywritten because the originality of the output work belongs to the author of the training data.

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[+] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com -11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The entire point of GPL is to forcefully extract copyright out of the code in the first place.

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[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No? The point of the GPL is to leverage such a copyright.

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

It's called "copyleft" for a reason.

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[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago*

The reason is that it's based in copyright law but uses it for the community instead of the individual. Without copyright, copyleft has no power.

I have many problems with copyright as it's currently implemented, but with copyleft it usefully creates a social contract: if you want to be involved for the benefits, you must also uphold the rule of contributing back.

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