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Multiple readings Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News Concern & critique · 4 attributable reactions
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Developing Models & releases Analysis 2d ago
Codeberg protects FLOSS commons from LLMs

Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News

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Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Michael Ekstrand, Jed Brown
“Codeberg updates ToU to disallow LLM training and many LLM-generated projects, and wrote a thorough explanation: blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o... Regardless of the merits of AI code generation, AI trainers have got to get their scraper bots under control a…” evidence ↗
7 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest Michael Ekstrand CJ Shriram Krishnamurthi Armin Ronacher Jed Brown Amy Hoy
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“I think this is a very bad move, and the people behind Codeberg should re-consider there stance. blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o...”

Policy & governance

2 experts

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Codeberg updates ToU to disallow LLM training and many LLM-generated projects, and wrote a thorough explanation: blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o... Regardless of the merits of AI code generation, AI trainers have got to get their scraper bots under control a…”

2 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Amy Hoy: this IS interesting, and it’s something i see a lot on subreddits for specific areas of interest (mac apps, note taking) as well as aspiring-entrepreneur ones lots of fancy-looking projects with ze…
Amy Hoy: i mean as somebody who coaches aspiring entrepreneurs, a lot of them spend way too much time on the idea or prototype and nothing on building a customer base but it usually takes more dedication an…
Amy Hoy: it’s the same old wantrepreneur failure pattern but with an acme rocket strapped to its ass
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Developing Policy & governance Development 2d ago
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Wikipedia AI content removal policy

Wikipedia:Presumptive removal of AI-generated content - Wikipedia

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Jed Brown
“See also Wikipedia's presumptive policy of presumptive removal of contributions from known users.” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
Olivia Guest Jed Brown

“See also Wikipedia's presumptive policy of presumptive removal of contributions from known users.”

Primary source en.wikipedia.org ↗
Established Policy & governance Development 13d ago
German court ChatGPT copyright ruling

ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules

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Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Jed Brown
“I'm also curious how you would define "similar" versus "non-similar" in an enforceable way when narrowly restricted to the artifact. I assume you're familiar with this case from last year. In your view, is there a crisp line of sufficient obfuscation at whi…” evidence ↗
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Jed Brown

“I'm also curious how you would define "similar" versus "non-similar" in an enforceable way when narrowly restricted to the artifact. I assume you're familiar with this case from last year. In your view, is there a crisp line of sufficient obfuscation at whi…”

Primary source theguardian.com ↗
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2 experts · 5 posts · 5d ago
Eileen Clancy 🧿 Jed Brown
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“I would not count on inability to forge rationale sufficient to placate the courts. They'll do it mostly with chatbots and amid some flagrant records, they will claim those are incidental errors ra…” evidence ↗
Jed Brown: Thakur v Trump continues to deliver the goods. Recall that it was brought by faculty (not the University of California) and is the same case that got UCLA funding restored last year, before UC coul…
Eileen Clancy 🧿: Thakur v Trump continues to deliver the goods. Recall that it was brought by faculty (not the University of California) and is the same case that got UCLA funding restored last year, before UC coul…
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