✨ Nora Tindall  🪐

i have determined that we are absolutely fucked but feel free to wait for a lawyer to confirmhttps://twitter.com/hipsterelectron/status/1410391147868946433?s=21 …

you're allowing the “this was mediated by tech” logic confuse you: if a snippet is big enough and you have copyright on a similar enough bit of code -- the mechanism by which someone copied it doesn't matter copyright protects the expression of an idea regardless of copy method

if a large snippet is constructed by you+copilot in multiple steps and ends up looking just like someone else's, you done goofed ;) i would also like to attach to the model itself, though -- a ML model is a derivative work on its own, and i which this wasn't still being debated.

Yeah, that latter bit was my original point. It's easy to hide a derivative work generated by the model, but the model itself MUST comply with the licenses it is trying to launder.

my apologies, i noticed it earlier but ran out of characters to fully word it; yes you had mentioned it, and word it better than i did ;)

oh wow. now that you mention it, it's a very interesting question whether it's even possible for an ML model to comply with the GPL.

the GPL goes into considerable detail on what it means to provide the "source" of something.

Yeah. They would have to provide the scripts they used to train the model, and all the training material...