woah .. I was gonna say I don’t but a lot of stock in DeVault (he’s an ass) but he’s right about the licenses and the video is … pretty telling
Microsoft’s argument, with a heavy reliance on the fact that the model becomes a general purpose programmer, having meaningfully learned from its inputs and applying this knowledge to produce original work. Should a human programmer take the same approach, studying free software and applying those lessons, but not the code itself, to original projects, I would agree that their applied knowledge is not creating derivative works. However, that is not how machine learning works. Machine learning is essentially a glorified pattern recognition and reproduction engine, and does not represent a genuine generalization of the learning process