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by JamesSwift 1748 days ago
They could easily tag the source with license info and take that information into account when feeding data in.
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That’s not how learning, human or machine, works. Learning is about collecting all kinds of stuff from diverse sources into a great melting-pot, so that you can form something new out of it—but you can’t generally identify where everything comes from. Individual recognisable tricks perhaps, but if you want to say “this code was inspired by X, Y and Z”, well, that inspiration is typically everything, the entire corpus.