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@RussSharek I appreciate the thought. But my understanding is that under current U.S. case law, AI (or rather, LLM) scrapers rely on fair use, and so don’t need a license - which also means that you can’t use copyright to exclude them from using your work.
(You can still put whatever you like in the license, but they don’t have to care.)
Perhaps someone who actually knows anything about U.S. copyright law can comment.
@slothrop @RussSharek Keeping in mind that I am not a lawyer, just trying to do OSS shit the best I can, there is generally the technique of writing licenses that deny you usage if you do other things that the law nominally allows you to do? There was some discussion a few weeks ago about possibly funding the creation of a license that would give the user GPL-like permissions, but such that those permissions vanish if you include the software in a training set.
I think this is more about developing a statement of intention than actually attempting to thwart evil.
That can come after. ;)
@RussSharek Ah! I see I was being too literal again.
Maybe some good curses? “May the bitrot of a thousand abandoned projects befall your GPU” or something along those lines?
I was thinking more along the lines of "we made this with our silly human brains and our filthy human hands in order to inspire our messy human hearts. Please use it to do likewise."
@RussSharek Oh I love that! 🤩