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.

  • artifexOPEnglish
    12•1 day ago

    Yep. But good luck getting a court to agree with you.

    • @slacktoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10•1 day ago

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

      • searabbitEnglish
        4•1 day 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•1 day 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.

          • TehPersEnglish
            1•7 hours ago

            I would expect the jury to be nothing less than world-class experts on statistics, linear algebra, and calculus once the case is decided.