Post #2702972
2026-04-03 01:41 UTC
@agersant@mastodon.gamedev.place @protowlf@mastodon.gamedev.place
And of course the voracious AI trainers scoop up a lot of code and other things that they *wouldn't* be allowed to just redistribute as-is, things like freeware or non-free software, and those all get thrown in their pot too. If you can't publish a .zip of it that someone can extract with WinZip, you probably can't publish a giant matrix that someone can extract it from by asking nicely.
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@Forbearance@mastodon.xyz 2026-04-03 01:46
@agersant@mastodon.gamedev.place @protowlf@mastodon.gamedev.place Traditionally, doing things like making tables of word trigrams and other stuff broadly under the header of "statistical analysis" has been unregulated by copyright law, and has not required any sort of license, on the theory that it's "just" math and not really anything like copying. But this way of thinking about it much predates the current popularity of math that steals your ideas, and might not be adequate to the present moment.