The current capabilities of AI are built on the backs of open-source contributors and the unauthorized ingestion of copyrighted books. By keeping our code entirely open to AI web scrapers, we are giving away the tools that will eventually eliminate our jobs as programmers.
We urgently need to modify our Open Source licenses to prevent AI models from exploiting our work without permission or compensation. We need to protect our profession before it's too late. Has anyone started adopting licenses specifically designed to block AI training?
ben_w•26m ago
Wouldn't work: the copyright lawsuit against Anthropic ruled that while copyright infringement (AKA piracy) to get the training data for training an AI is still copyright infringement, actually doing the training once you have the data is not itself a copyright violation.
Simply making the code available, regardless of the licence, allows present and future AI to train on them.
jcarlosweb•16m ago
But that was in America, where big corporations do whatever they want; in Europe, that shouldn't be allowed. Changing just a few lines in the open-source licenses could save us in the future.
jcarlosweb•59m ago
We urgently need to modify our Open Source licenses to prevent AI models from exploiting our work without permission or compensation. We need to protect our profession before it's too late. Has anyone started adopting licenses specifically designed to block AI training?
ben_w•26m ago
Simply making the code available, regardless of the licence, allows present and future AI to train on them.
jcarlosweb•16m ago