It seems Linus’s position is very clear now

  • Alex
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    I can absolutely understand some of the objections and I understand why writers and artists are pissed. My code has always been free software so I don’t object to it being in the training sets because that seems fair use according to the four freedoms.

    The power usage is definitely a concern but that holds up for all computing. I don’t see people up in arms about inefficient CI loops retesting the whole world for a single line change. Think of savings that could be made!

    • Victor
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      My code has always been free software so I don’t object to it being in the training sets because that seems fair use according to the four freedoms.

      But what about the output of an LLM that was trained on free software, then being used in closed source, commercial software? 🙁

      inefficient CI loops retesting the whole world for a single line change. Think of savings that could be made!

      Oh yeah, I’m definitely with you there. Oh gosh.

      They probably should be up in arms! Both are bad things, simultaneously, as two things can be!