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ethicalqualmsyesterday at 5:16 PM3 repliesview on HN

Sorry, out of the loop. Which ethical qualms are you referring to?


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kbelderyesterday at 5:18 PM

Using a Mac, obviously.

rectangyesterday at 7:02 PM

I have ethical qualms to varying degrees with most LLMs, primarily because of copyright laundering.

I'm a BSD-style Open Source advocate who has published a lot of Apache-licensed code. I have never accepted that AI companies can just come in and train their models on that code without preserving my license, just allowing their users to claim copyright on generated output and take it proprietary or do whatever.

I would actually not mind licensing my work in an LLM-friendly way, contributing towards a public pool from which generated output would remain in that pool. Perhaps there is opportunity for Open Source organizations to evolve licenses to facilitate such usage.

For what it's worth, I would be happy to pay for a commercial LLM trained on public domain or other properly licensed works whose output is legitimately public domain.

folkravyesterday at 5:31 PM

My guess - China.