Yesterday, a prominent open social web person made a post saying that they do not see LLM output as "derivative work" and that is just the most short sighted belief.
If LLM output is not a derivative work, then every single FOSS licensed code can just be laundered through the slop machine.
At HOPE XV I remember asking a speaker (who posts here regularly) if they thought we were going to see mass copyright laundering.
The speaker was dismissive of my question.
Anyhow, a few years later the sloperators are out there discussing how Claude laundering is their solution to GPL licensed code.
This was a very foreseeable attack on the commons.
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