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by zelon88 1260 days ago
It sounds like it's time for open source licensing aimed specifically at humans, with different terms for machines.

The problem I can see is that most people don't host their own content, and don't pay to host it either. In such a case, it really isn't up to the author to license the work. Chances are the content is already licensed to the host, who usually has explicit rights to do whatever they want with it.
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brookst 1260 days ago
It just seems very odd to tell me that I can do something with code, but I can’t write a program to do the same thing.

Would that also prohibit automated tools that upgrade source to newer language versions, or convert source to a different language? Tools like lint?

If I take a pencil and paper and implement a very slow neural net, is that OK?

The problems are real but I haven’t seen a workable solution yet.

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zelon88 1259 days ago
It's not to stop honest human innovation, but rather to stop machine learning algorithms from stealing your work for use in massive training sets.

Think of the training data as content, not code.

You are free to use the WordPress application to create your own website, but that doesn't mean you can plagiarize the content off of the WordPress homepage. That is what machine learning does.

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