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by crakhamster01 94 days ago
I can maybe see this argument being valid for OSS - as Carmack says, by nature it should be "no strings attached".

I don't think that's all anti-AI activists care about though. Honestly, I would say most activists don't talk about the use of OSS? The most prominent anti-AI sentiment seems to come from creatives. Artists, musicians, designers, etc.

They didn't publish their works with the same notion as OSS developers, but it was scraped up by corporations all the same. In many cases, these works were protected by copyright law and used anyways.

To me that feels like the equivalent of training on "private repos", which Carmack would call a violation [1].

[1] https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2031769354401091988