Seems completely ridiculous when compared to the trouble I was in that one time I pirated a single book that I was unable to purchase.
How would one manage to get in trouble for pirating a book? Unless you mean with your employer for doing it on their network or something?
Humans destroying common resources until depleted is a feature not a bug
1. Open weight models exist, guys.
2. It assumes that copyright is stripped when doing essentially Img2Img on code. That's not true. (Also, copyright != attribution.)
3. It assumes that AI is "just rearranging code". That's not true. Speaking about provenance in learning is as nonsensical as asking one to credit the creators of the English alphabet. There's a reason why literally every single copyright-based lawsuit against machine learning has failed so far, around the world.
4. It assumes that the reduction in posts on StackOverflow is due to people no longer wanting to contribute. That's likely not true. Its just that most questions were "homework questions" that didn't really warrant a volunteer's time.
citizenpaul•1mo ago
y0eswddl•1mo ago
There's also a huge problem with for-profit companies building on the work of FOSS without contributing resources or knowledge back.
p0w3n3d•1mo ago