Post #2450627

Are there any #OpenSource #Software licenses that are #AntiAI? Or actually effective efforts to keep the scrapers away? Large corporations, among many other capitalists, have gotten a lot of value from running freely available open source software, and we've put up with it as a kind of bargain because it meant more adoption and maybe some slim opportunity to make some money or get collaboration. But now this freely available code has become the training set for large models to rube goldberg copy-paste from. If licensing our code with something like the #GPL ever did anything at all, can't we come up with licenses that forbid or imposes significant cost on using the code to train an #LLM or other AI system? Is there any effort with teeth to find sloppily-pasted GPL code in closed-source codebases to GPL the whole thing and yank it from whatever company owns it? Why?/The Rant: Open Source is, imo, about more than simply being able to read code for software you use. It's about establishing a commons of computation, where people are empowered to use computers as they see fit, not as a corporation deems profitable. Communities and individuals can better their own lives and share regardless of what the Microsofts and Oracles of the world think. But that has to be adversarial to the corporations because they will want to crush or capture that commons, which means it either goes away or becomes a private park that is no longer for you (if you're even allowed in). It also has to be ecologically sustainable. If your commons destroys the world around you and disrupts your ability to grow food, then commons or not it won't exist for much longer (and maybe neither will you). Which basically means that nearly all LLM use simply needs to stop, and open source communities must reject it. We need to, in any way possible, remove the fruits of our labor from their training data.