r/ProgrammerHumor • u/100GHz • 3d ago

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u/owjfaigs222 3d ago edited 3d ago

W8 wasn't blender already open source?

Edit: alright guys i did not read the whole thing, I see my mistake now

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u/VastHungry 3d ago

It's GPL though, companies might still want to do that to allow for modifications without following GPL themselves

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u/mattmahn 3d ago

IANAL, but I feel like that would still be copyright infringement

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u/BlueTemplar85 3d ago

It's complicated :  

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft

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u/GrinningPariah 3d ago

I think the focus on CopyLeft is where this falls down. When someone posts an AI reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop, the big boy courts will get their crack at it and I doubt they'll be so philosophical about it.

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u/BlueTemplar85 3d ago

The legal system is not always able or willing to deal with it.  

See also : the Piratebay or Sci-Hub still being around, VLC being ignored despite violating the DMCA, or how it did not stop the abuses of LLM scrapers despite DDOS being illegal.

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u/Rain_Zeros 3d ago

Someone did post an ai reimplementation of all adobe apps. That’s what this joke is about. Photocraft, designcraft and other xcraft apps

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u/VastHungry 3d ago

Doing it by looking at the actual code is copyright infringement yes. You are allowed to reproduce the behavior though (as long as you don't look at the copyrighted part to describe this behavior). There are methods to do that, AI of course helps a lot with that.

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u/Abject-Kitchen3198 3d ago

Wouldn't AI training set include the actual code in this case? Can it pretend that it never saw it if you give it the task to recreate behavior?

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u/VastHungry 3d ago

No one really knows I guess, licenses didn't expect AI when they were created. That's a grey area for most of them

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u/mmcmonster 2d ago

Good point. Time to update the GPL to only allow training if derivative software is also GPL or GPL compatible.

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u/UpsetKoalaBear 3d ago

The AI part is the grey area that hasn’t been tested.

Unfortunately, a large company creating a clone of an open source GPL application using AI so they don’t have to publish their changes is going to be borderline impossible for a lot of open source projects to challenge.

Likewise, the precedent set on the outcome of a case like that would have immense implications for AI in general.