FSF threatens Anthropic over infringed copyright: share your LLMs freely (opens in new tab)

(news.slashdot.org)

19 pointsMilnerRoute10d ago5 comments

5 comments

Off topic, Slashdot has devolved further and added AI banner ads to the bottom of their site that persists through noscript/ublock origin and require manual and repeated intervention. I've reluctantly had to say that it was a good boy, and that it was time to go..

Slashdot is a news article aggregator. Can a better link can be found? ..like from the source?

Here you go: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2026-anthropic-settlemen...

vrganj10d ago

If the GPL actually holds, all LLMs need to be GPL'd. They all used GPL code in their training, they're all derivative works.

tpmoney9d ago

So far, all the relevant court cases that have actually been adjudicated have come down on the side of training LLMs to be a sufficiently transformative use of copyrighted material to fall under "fair use". If a case about the GPL were to break the same way, the GPL would still hold, but it would have no hold over this particular use as the GPL can't restrict "fair use" any more than any other set of copyright restrictions can.

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