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CTOnews.com, June 28 (Xinhua) Foreign media The Register recently released an article proposing to "renew open source licenses", arguing that open source licenses are bound by the tradition of the 1980s and need to be changed to cope with the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

According to The Register, the main target of free software and open source licenses evolved into "code" in the 1970s and 1980s. But today, it must transform again to cope with the current era of AI artificial intelligence.

At present, most of the programming data sets of the AI model use free software and open source code, so the free software and open source license based on copyright law are not suitable for the language model of artificial intelligence open source software.

CTOnews.com has previously reported that Microsoft GitHub Copilot was complained by a number of users that it was "rewriting public code to avoid copyright". The lawsuit was first filed in November last year by four anonymous plaintiffs ("J. Doe"), who claimed that Copilot used AI to train public code in a way that violated copyright law and software licensing requirements, and finally formally "took possession" of other people's code. Microsoft and GitHub tried to dismiss the case, but in the end the judge decided that the case needed more time and allowed the plaintiff to add more details of the evidence.

▲ source court document The Register also mentioned that Sean O'Brien (Yale Law School cyber security lecturer and founder of Yale Privacy Lab) pointed out: "I believe there will soon be a sub-industry similar to patent hooligans, but this time works are generated around artificial intelligence. These hooligans will track your ChatGPT and Copilot code."

Felix Reda, a German researcher and politician, claims that all code generated by artificial intelligence is in the public domain. Richard Santalesa, an American lawyer and a founding member of SmartEdgeLaw Group, observed problems with contract and copyright law, arguing that they were not the same.

Around these topics, it is not difficult to see that with the confusion between the source of AI training data and the final copyright ownership, open source licenses do need to be updated and cooperate with relevant laws and guidelines to solve the emerging problems.

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