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How many proper open-source LLMs are there?
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this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2026
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I was trying to reply to this, bringing up the controversy that erupted when image generators were able to use prompts with artist names to simulate their style, and how that shows how blurry the copyright line is. As I wrote it, I realized how complicated the issue really is, and how little I understand current copyright laws. Some may argue there isn't any vagueness, an artist's work in any format is theirs and shouldn't be copied for other use, training or otherwise. But we all use other people's work in our own, don't we? There is no solid line where one is ethical and one isn't. Plagiarism without proper attribution has always been wrong, but if you take the same content and tweak it a bit, it's not. LLMs can and do that, through statistical randomness, while using someone else's material, just like human brains would.
The compensation issue is definitely a problem and where the ethics come into play. Even if many people freely read a book in a library, it has been bought at some point. But how do you determine who was unfairly "stolen" from? Isn't it basically everyone at this point?
Compensation is actually the only issue. If they were fairly paid, most artists would be ok with people enjoying their works in any way they can.
I know I'm way too nitpicky... But I feel I should point out there's some confusion hidden here...
There's stuff which is moral to do. And stuff which is legal to do. Those aren't the same! When talking about who can mention what, what copyright law demands people to do and those blurry lines, we're concerned with legality. That doesn't have anything to do with ethics. (At least not directly.)