Malus, which is a piece of satire but also fully functional, performs a "clean room" clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell software without crediting the original developers.

Malus, which is a piece of “satire” but also fully functional, performs a “clean room” clone of open source software, meaning users could then sell, redistribute, etc. the software without crediting the original developers. But I have a hard time with the “clean room” argument since the LLM doing the behind-the-scenes work has already ingested the entire corpus of open source software – and somehow the output of the LLMs isn’t considered a derivative work.

  • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    8 hours ago

    Omg Imagine if half of the case is just an ML course to teach the jury what training data is.

      • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        And you teach all of them the amount of data facebook takes from them. ALL of it.

    • searabbit@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      That sounds painful. Absolutely no shade to the lovely older person I overheard today say: “so how do you get the little folks on the screen to know what buttons I pressed?”

      But I’m guessing it could be similar to music copywrite law where jurors don’t have to understand audio engineering to know two samples sound the same.

      • slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        Nope the class will be dropped down to teach all the basics and then up to vector databases and word embeddings to understand the case.