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A GAN-generated image has been auctioned for a high price tag. The people selling it might have reused a piece of code taken from GitHub, with limited changes. Should you be outraged? Well, no.
As someone who does open-source, on many occasions my work has been monetized with only thin packaging around it, & not credit. I don't actually have a problem with that -- it's right there in the license terms. It's part of what OSS means: you create more value than you capture.
Is it in bad taste to monetize open-source without giving back? Absolutely. Protesting it is just as bad, though. If you don't want people to reuse your code (and implicitly, profit from it), don't open-source it.
As for whether a generic, low-quality GAN-generated image is worth money -- obviously the content itself is worthless, but the act of putting it up for auction (with great success!) is a kind of a masterpiece of performance art, unironically.
It's like Banksy's shredder -- I don't think the manufacturer of that shredder deserves much credit.
Anyway, the author of that GAN piece of code used open-source packages to code an implementation of an algorithm they didn't invent, & train it on a dataset they didn't collect. In most cases, your work is a link in a long chain. You are rarely the center of the universe.
This event will trigger others to do same, so sooner will see cases where conflict arises where the OSS code of conduct and license can't solve.
I think part of the problem here is that they explicitly violated his OSS license by selling their work.
Using open source is not really the issue here imo, mostly making false claims: explaining that their work was innovative and that they were the first to be able to produce this kind of stuff - which led to the hype and the auction
Exactly. No one would have paid half a million for a “painting” that he/she knew was NOT the first of its kind, was generated by code that NOT the “artists” created but was in a public repo and generated by an algorithm type that was designed by another person.
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