OpenAI recently fed everything on GitHub into a language model which will cheerfully reproduce GPL'd software without license or attribution.
I think that's the end of "free software" in the GPL sense. There is zero point to writing AGPL on a program if copying it into a language model and then back out into a text file without the license is a legitimate thing to do.
I can't imagine this being countered effectively by lawsuit. Microsoft has built a weapon that they can use to disassemble open source software, I think they'll take the legal side of that seriously enough that GPL will be a distant memory by the time the courts conclude in either direction.
OpenAI recently fed everything on GitHub into a language model which will cheerfully reproduce GPL'd software without license or attribution.
I think that's the end of "free software" in the GPL sense. There is zero point to writing AGPL on a program if copying it into a language model and then back out into a text file without the license is a legitimate thing to do.
I can't imagine this being countered effectively by lawsuit. Microsoft has built a weapon that they can use to disassemble open source software, I think they'll take the legal side of that seriously enough that GPL will be a distant memory by the time the courts conclude in either direction.