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AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source (www.quippd.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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TL;DR: The big tech AI company LLMs have gobbled up all of our data, but the damage they have done to open source and free culture communities are particularly insidious. By taking advantage of those who share freely, they destroy the bargain that made free software spread like wildfire.

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[–] 6 points 10 months ago

I think you misinterpreted my comment? I mean the Free Software Foundation is copyleft absolutist, as in, they will defend that model of licensing no matter what. I agree, of course, an LLM can be trained legally with GPL code, as you say that's how it is.

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