If you turn it up to 11 you get Nightcrawler’s gecko hands.

The US has a lot of gun owners, but it also has a lot of people who don’t own guns but are MAGAs anyway.

Exactly. And that’s before adding in all the “source available” code that’s publicly available but not actually Free, let alone the leaked proprietary code that they’ve probably shoved into the training corpus willy-nilly, too.

To be clear, I said I’d like to think all the output should be copyleft. I actually think that, since the training set is a hopeless mishmash of conflicting licenses, it’s just massive copyright infringement and can’t be used for any purpose at all. Part of me is surprised some judge hasn’t started ordering them to just straight-up delete the entire models yet.

…Hey, wait a minnit! That’s not a bright side at all!

(Personally, I’d like to think that the output of any LLM whose training data includes copyleft code ought to be required to be copyleft.)

Too bad permissive licensing instead of copyleft (even as flawed as GPLv2 is) is a deal-breaker.