AI is using our Open Source code to replace us. We need new licenses now(opensource.com)
7 pointsby jcarlosweb2 hours ago2 comments
  • jcarlosweb2 hours ago
    The current capabilities of AI are built on the backs of open-source contributors and the unauthorized ingestion of copyrighted books. By keeping our code entirely open to AI web scrapers, we are giving away the tools that will eventually eliminate our jobs as programmers.

    We urgently need to modify our Open Source licenses to prevent AI models from exploiting our work without permission or compensation. We need to protect our profession before it's too late. Has anyone started adopting licenses specifically designed to block AI training?

    • ben_w2 hours ago
      Wouldn't work: the copyright lawsuit against Anthropic ruled that while copyright infringement (AKA piracy) to get the training data for training an AI is still copyright infringement, actually doing the training once you have the data is not itself a copyright violation.

      Simply making the code available, regardless of the licence, allows present and future AI to train on them.

      • jcarlosweban hour ago
        But that was in America, where big corporations do whatever they want; in Europe, that shouldn't be allowed. Changing just a few lines in the open-source licenses could save us in the future.
      • re-thc16 minutes ago
        > Wouldn't work: the copyright lawsuit against Anthropic ruled that

        Then just make it work? Humans invented the laws, the rules, etc.

        • ben_w2 minutes ago
          While laws can indeed be changed, "just" isn't the right word for it. Very few nations empower the electorate to direct binding referendums on topics of the electorate's choice. Switzerland does, I can't think of any others.
  • Tomte2 hours ago
    No article with that title. Flagged.