[mullikine]

Large language models including Codex are a transformative technology. So long as Microsoft and OpenAI are not selling back usage of the model to the open-source community, I think it's OK, though it's the bare minimum obligation. Bi-directional fair-use is probably the best result we can hope for. The model does 'steal' the 'essence' of the software though, to use inference instead of computation to generate code, documentation, even evaluate and explain it. The models are license blind and there's very little that could be done to prevent it. Like what the invention of the camera has done for art. So long as MS/OpenAI is giving back to open source/free software. The most important thing, however, is that free (libre) software developers are able to work with the language models directly, so that libre software is allowed to continue progressing into what I call Imaginary Programming. That's because with a generative internet all you really need is blockchain + prompting. Traditional 'real' programming is like writing in assembly code -- it's completley outmoded. https://huggingface.co/spaces/mullikine/ilambda