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Is it free software?

Is it free software?

Posted Feb 21, 2026 12:59 UTC (Sat) by draco (subscriber, #1792)
In reply to: Is it free software? by rgmoore
Parent article: The Book of Remind

> I feel like the discourse around AI and copyright could be simplified a lot if you ask the question "would this be copyright infringement if a human did it".

I'd agree completely if these AIs were actually intelligent enough to obey copyright law on their own. (I think there's a legitimate philosophical question whether it's ok to delete a true artificial intelligence once you've created it, since that's the equivalent of killing it.) Since LLMs aren't actually intelligent and aren't trained in a way that makes it possible to inherently obey copyright law, I feel it gets a lot murkier.


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