We urgently need to modify our Open Source licenses to prevent AI models from exploiting our work without permission or compensation. We need to protect our profession before it's too late. Has anyone started adopting licenses specifically designed to block AI training?
Simply making the code available, regardless of the licence, allows present and future AI to train on them.
Then just make it work? Humans invented the laws, the rules, etc.
The ruling was very much not "big corporations do whatever they want", hence where I wrote "while copyright infringement (AKA piracy) to get the training data for training an AI is still copyright infringement"
> Changing just a few lines in the open-source licenses could save us in the future.
Could? No, not when so much of the coding work gets done in America. Not when the leading AI are American models. Not when so much of the open source code itself is American in origin. Not when the code is hosted on American servers.
Now, the code AI makes being bad, that might save our profession, but I'm not counting on it. I've not figured out what to do next, but I don't think I'm staying in software.