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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
All of the major tech companies - Microsoft, Amazon, Google, etc - have apparently decided that this risk is worth accepting. If LLM output was found to be impossible to copyright in the future there's now several years worth of code at those companies that would be affected.
yeah, and they have huge legal departments to fight that sort of things. the average FLOSS author does not.
so maybe we should do that 'precautionary principle' thing and not contaminate our projects in such a way that we could be completely fucked tomorrow if we got exactly the sort of legal clarity i expect we'll have eventually...