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> if one offers something for free under a GPL or MIT license, claiming to do so for the betterment of humanity, only to later retract it because corporations profit without paying or AI companies use it for model training

Both the GPL and MIT licenses require attribution, so by publishing open-source software, developers are not consenting to LLM training.



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