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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dalias@hachyderm.io ("Cassandrich") wrote:
@The4thCircle @kestral Being free and open source means that you license the recipient of the software to use and modify and copy it under terms that meet a particular definition.
This requires that you actually hold the copyright on the source, or that you have obtained license from the authors/copyright holders allowing you to sublicense under these terms.
When an LLM spits out derivatives of random parts of its corpus correlated with your prompts, you have no idea who the authors of that code were and whether they licensed you to use it. Even if it was FOSS, the license almost surely required attribution, which you are unable to give, and possibly also copyleft conditions.