Ask HN: Software Licenses that prevent LLMs from training on open source?

mmattm about 6 hours ago 2 comments

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I'm planning to release an open source software library soon and was wondering - are there any licenses that would prevent LLMs from ingesting it into their training? Do any of the labs say that they don't ingest software code that uses certain licenses?

I realize this would be something that would be nearly impossible to discover and they could always say that they don't but they end up ingesting anyway.

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brudgers•22 minutes ago

Unless your license is backed up by the legal wherewithal to enforce its terms, your choice doesn't matter.

There are is no Software License Enforcement Agency.

And by "legal wherewithal" I mean enough money to out lawyer the big AI companies who have many billions of dollars on the line and therefore a few billion for legal fees.

Also keep in mind that scraping by open-source projects is a proven tactic for corporate ingestion while generating plausible legal protection.

Good luck.

sigbottle•about 4 hours ago

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