<story><title>Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/open_source_licenses_ai/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cornholio</author><text>The existing licenses cover AI training just fine, what we lack is sufficient legal precedent and enforcement. An AI product - more specifically, the model weights - is a derivative work of the original works used for training; AI training is a process of algorithmic compression of the originals.&lt;p&gt;Therefore, the resulting model should abide by all the license requirements imposed on the original - for example, if the model is trained on GPL code and can generate code, then any binary distribution should also be freely available for derivation in source format, and that includes all the algorithmically compressed training material (weights), which has become part of the model. If the source is AGPL, then that service cannot be made available on a website without disclosing said source and respective model weights.&lt;p&gt;Any other interpretation of the nature of copyright - which by definition, only covers human produced material - is just a variant of the proverbial &amp;quot;man that can&amp;#x27;t understand something because their paycheck depends upon them not understanding&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI</title><url>https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/23/open_source_licenses_ai/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshTriplett</author><text>We don&amp;#x27;t need Open Source licenses to change to deal with AI. We need AI to respect Open Source licenses, or not use code under those licenses.&lt;p&gt;I sincerely hope that one of the many court cases produces a verdict that says AI-generated code is, in fact, subject to the licenses of the inputs. Then there will be a lot of screaming and wailing, as people go &amp;quot;but how can we train AI if we have to respect licenses?!&amp;quot;. And then people will &lt;i&gt;figure out&lt;/i&gt; how to actually respect Open Source software licenses (and, for that matter, proprietary ones).</text></comment>