Code that I uploaded to GitHub and the writing that I’ve put into this blog went into training these models: I didn’t give permission for this kind of use, and no one asked me if it was ok. Doesn’t this violate my copyrights?
Github requires that you set licence terms for your code. And you can’t let outside parties access the code by accident, you have to specifically allow access. Either the use is or is not permitted by set licences. And you published your blog. Would you go after people that apply things mentioned in your blog? You did in fact give the permission.
Now it is a little bit murky when there are novel uses which the licensor didn’t have in mind. But it is not like we should assume that everything is banned by default if quite wide permissions have been granted. Old licences have to mean something in the new world.
Github requires that you set licence terms for your code. And you can’t let outside parties access the code by accident, you have to specifically allow access. Either the use is or is not permitted by set licences. And you published your blog. Would you go after people that apply things mentioned in your blog? You did in fact give the permission.
Now it is a little bit murky when there are novel uses which the licensor didn’t have in mind. But it is not like we should assume that everything is banned by default if quite wide permissions have been granted. Old licences have to mean something in the new world.