• trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf
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    6 hours ago

    Free as in beer, not speech.

    The open source community has licenses associated with its code. Just because one can access it doesn’t mean they can fucking sell it.

    • mechoman444@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Ok. Fine. Sure.

      Not sure though what this has to do with llm companies making money. Since they write their own code and llms are trained on data… Like wikipedia.

      🤷

      • balsoft@lemmy.ml
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        45 seconds ago

        LLMs are absolutely trained on FOSS software, including GPL’d stuff. Accelerating software development is also a large part of how they are making money. I believe training on GPL’d software and then charging for access is copyright infringement, but it doesn’t really matter because entities supposed to be enforcing copyright are paid for by the same billionaires who run the AI companies, so literally nothing will happen.