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1. MoltenMonster · 1789511027 · focus · HN ↗

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   &gt; The author was banned from Asahi Linux for hiding his extensive use of LLMs from us in another attempted contribution, and (more importantly) for concealing that he is a former Apple engineer with direct contacts to the people involved in Apple Silicon development. Make of this what you will.

   1. pclowes · 1789524317 · focus · HN ↗

      Why would anyone care about either of these things in a negative sense?

      Isn’t that just saying “he uses modern tools and has subject matter expertise”?

      1. preisschild · 1789571447 · focus · HN ↗

         Because the original data the model is trained on is under copyright you can&#x27;t include the output in a copyleft codebase.

         See DCO. You cant sign off on you having permission to license the code when you stole it.

         Many open source contributors like copyleft, but with illegal LLM copyright-washing many people disrespect the terms. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Developer_Certificate_of_Origin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Developer_Certificate_of_Origi...

         1. pclowes · 1789592512 · focus · HN ↗

            Any court case involving an LLM you can point to where LLM output violated copyright AND that was held up in court?

            General thought here is the entire economy is all in on a bet that that would never be enforced and I am willing to bet we would rather change the law than destroy the economy…

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