[akersten]

> Surely the precedent would have to be that a model trained on GPL code has itself been infected by GPL, and therefore must have all source/weights released

I don't see how this follows, unless we also agree that humans who have ever read any GPL code are themselves permanently tainted and therefore cannot produce anything that isn't influenced even slightly by said code.

Is it just because we think the robot does a better job at learning than we do? It's an impossible line to draw, I agree, but I don't agree that the answer is "well then everything must be considered tainted," I say the answer is "ignore a vestigial concern of a bygone era."

[tremon]

The robot does a better job at reproduction. I don't think there exists a definition of "learning" unambiguous enough to make the claim that it learns better than humans. Specifically, published models don't learn at all -- after the training phase, the model weights are fully static.