Recently we have seen generative AI such as ChatGPT trained on open source code which are so good at programming. It has made us concerned about loosing/impacting our jobs. Should open source allow AI companies which plan to make billions using their work, to train on open source code?
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
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10. License Must Be Technology-Neutral
No provision of the license may be predicated on any individual technology or style of interface.
There are certainly license / fair use / derived work issues to be resolved... but the "allow AI training" probably should be a "yes" for open source software.
I guess my point is there has to be some consistent standard here. Software engineers have no greater claim to their public-facing work than writers and artists, and are paid far more. If there's an argument to exclude open-source code from training sets there should also be an argument to exclude essays and journalism, digital drawings, and music from such training sets.