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by dpq 415 days ago
> If we were referring to writing a recipe book or creating a novel it doesn’t have its own “hip” phrase to go with it. Many people would simply call it “stealing”.

> LLMs don’t miraculously know how to create code – it’s learning from what’s available to it online already. Do you think it’s learnt from closed code such as Microsoft software, or anything from Apple? No. It’s taking advantage of the generosity and sharing spirit of the open-source community.

So if I learn from open source community, pick up good coding habits, patterns etc., and then apply what I've learned to write new code - does this also constitute stealing? While IP laws are without doubt not without fault, I'm rather more used to people claiming that they are too strict, if anything. Now, the author essentially claims that we need to introduce on top of copyright also "trainingright" (or "learningright"?), essentially extending the definition of "derivative works" to plus infinity. This doesn't sit right with me.