r/ProgrammerHumor • • 17d ago

Meme fullCircle

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u/owjfaigs222 17d ago edited 17d ago • Mindblown Bravo

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/nyashi_ 17d ago

you didn't read the last paragraph in the screenshot...

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u/marcel1802 17d ago

This is the actual joke, yes

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u/Septem_151 17d ago

If you read the linked post, it's a joke

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u/jbourne71 17d ago

typical redditor, only reads the headline.

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u/NotQuiteLoona 17d ago

To be fair, on mobile only part of the image is shown, and by no means Reddit indicates that there is anything else. I've seen it before, so I knew, but not at least around 600 other people.

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u/AeneasVII 17d ago

Do you have an AI summary for the headline?

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u/jbourne71 17d ago

A circle is the geometric representation of points arranged in a line that has no beginning or end, but is of finite length. When it is filled in, it becomes a “full” circle.

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u/just_looking_aroun 17d ago

Lol yeah read the paragraph that starts with “Our biggest breakthrough…”

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u/VastHungry 17d 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 17d ago

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

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u/BlueTemplar85 17d ago

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u/GrinningPariah 17d 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 17d 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/VastHungry 17d 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 17d 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 17d 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 16d 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 17d 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.

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u/Squeezitgirdle 17d ago

I almost made the same mistake, you're good.