2026-02-24 02:18 UTC
@DataGhost@mstdn.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org where is the abuse of generosity if you train and distribute a GPL-licensed LLM? Chinese labs proved it's possible to do on a small budget, efficiently.
Why is me using GPL snippets in my code and further distributing my code as GPL ok, but using GPL snippets in training an LLM and further distributing that LLM as GPL wrong?
As I said above, it seems it's an intellectually dishonest argument
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@DataGhost@mstdn.social 2026-02-24 02:46
@budududuroiu@hachyderm.io @tante@tldr.nettime.org If you use GPL snippets and comply with the GPL by publishing the work you incorporated it into, you’ve honored the agreement that gave you those snippets in the first place. Good. An LLM scraping them all, mashing them together, and regurgitating it out of context does not honor the gift of the code. It’s also a violation of the GPL, which uses copyright to enforce the continued freedom of that code. GPL licensing the model doesn’t help.