Indeed in a weird way, one can also argue that this state is the ultimate copyleft.
replyIf anybody can create any software anytime, everybody gets a lot of the Four Freedoms of Free Software (change it to make it do what you wish, distribute your modified version, etc), without even "having the source".
And all the programmers constantly feeding their new code into training is the contorted version of GPL'ing it.
>> all the programmers constantly feeding their new code into training
replyThat's going to be approximately no one in a couple of years.
This is my belief. As I’ve said before, RMS would never need to write a printer driver if an agent could just RE it and write a replacement. Hell, I’ve now done that myself for a device that only had an old binary-only Linux driver.
replyThat concept only works if it's actually free. It's not free, it's just under new ownership now that it's been heisted.
replyAnd the bigger problem is that no one's actually going to make anything new that these systems can ingest. So we enter a cycle of LLMs feeding off LLM output, and a parallel decline in human cognition and creation. All for the profit of a few people. Not at all for the liberation of information.