Given that you’ve presumably looked at open source code in the past, and got more proficient (however marginally) as a result, does all your future code now belong to the GPL?
This comparison is invalid. Training a neural network algorithm is not equivalent to human learning. We are talking about data stored in machine learning models owned and controlled by multi-billion dollar corporations.
It has already been demonstrated multiple times that original training data can be reproduced completely from models, so yes, they are data storage systems. When they reproduce code which they have previously stored, even only in part, that is a derivative work. Adding extra steps to the transcribing process doesn’t make it any less a copy of the original.
Only when the data in question is so obscure to the point that the original source is the only place in which the data exists; which is neither common, nor useful to regurgitate, in practice.
It’s like if someone asked an artist to draw Trump, and then they did. It’s not that they studied what he looks like, but they’re familiar with that walking pusbag and there’s only the one, so it’s going to be a recognizable drawing.
Given that you’ve presumably looked at open source code in the past, and got more proficient (however marginally) as a result, does all your future code now belong to the GPL?
This comparison is invalid. Training a neural network algorithm is not equivalent to human learning. We are talking about data stored in machine learning models owned and controlled by multi-billion dollar corporations.
It has already been demonstrated multiple times that original training data can be reproduced completely from models, so yes, they are data storage systems. When they reproduce code which they have previously stored, even only in part, that is a derivative work. Adding extra steps to the transcribing process doesn’t make it any less a copy of the original.
Only when the data in question is so obscure to the point that the original source is the only place in which the data exists; which is neither common, nor useful to regurgitate, in practice.
It’s like if someone asked an artist to draw Trump, and then they did. It’s not that they studied what he looks like, but they’re familiar with that walking pusbag and there’s only the one, so it’s going to be a recognizable drawing.