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Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by trollbridge »

w10-1 wrote: post #116

They do require that you allow them to use your name publicly. They are silent on whether you can prohibit them from training on your input, so I assume you can. My guess is, if even 10% of maintainers forget to disable training, then Anthropic will have a most excellent source of how really good developers approach problems that can be fed back into the model. That could improve things for everyone. Of course, the w…

Of course they're going to train on open-source input (not like you could stop them).

And of course they're also going to train on your private inputs. It's right there in the TOS.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by amatecha »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #77
bicx wrote: post #4

Considering they trained their model on open-source software, the least they could do is give it to open-source maintainers for free with no time limit. I’m sure they can come up with other ways to prevent abuse. This 6-months-free move just adds insult to injury, like it’s just a move to extract more from those who involuntarily contributed to the training already. And that’s coming from me, a Claude Code fan.

The double standards are so obnoxious. Corporations bent over backwards to lobby intellectual property into law, then they invent AI and suddenly everything turns into fair use.

"Rules for thee, but not for me" relevant pretty much every week at this point.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by shimman »

zhisme wrote: post #90
xantronix wrote: post #42

Open source developers should be paid for their efforts, and for their contributions to LLM models, past, present, and future, rather than be enticed into paying to participate six months down the road.

OSS developers driven by something else than just money I believe. They are proud of their work of giving something to the community with their name on it. So such respect as giving free subscription to them I think matters, as they were mentioned and respected.

Nah, I know open source devs that would rather tax these companies into paying actual open source devs.

Maybe get out of your SVG bubble and realize that people don't like companies that rat fuck the commons for a quick buck. It's disgusting.

There should be a penny tax per prompt that funds open source development through grants.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by lambda »

julianlam wrote: post #107
bicx wrote: post #4

Considering they trained their model on open-source software, the least they could do is give it to open-source maintainers for free with no time limit. I’m sure they can come up with other ways to prevent abuse. This 6-months-free move just adds insult to injury, like it’s just a move to extract more from those who involuntarily contributed to the training already. And that’s coming from me, a Claude Code fan.

> Considering they trained their model on open-source software, the least they could do is give it to open-source maintainers for free with no time limit. Why? The resulting code generated by Claude is unfit for training, so any work product produced after the start of the subsidized program should be ignored. Therefore it makes sense to charge them for the service after 6 months, no? Heh.

What do you mean it's unfit for training? It's a form of reinforcement learning; the end result has been selected based on whether it actually solved the need.

You need to be careful of the amount of reinforcement learning vs continued pretraining you do, but they already do plenty of other forms of reinforcement learning, I'm sure they have it dialed in.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by amatecha »

guntars wrote: post #122
koinedad wrote: post #98

Sorry we stole all your src code that you labored over for hours and hours of your life. Here’s a few bucks for 6 months to help train our model even more.

People on a tech forum making "copying is theft" arguments lol

I mean that's what's been shoved in our faces for decades, every time we load any piece of software or play any video game

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by lambda »

mostlyk wrote: post #65
stavros wrote: post #10

I like what GitHub and Jetbrains are doing, where you get Copilot and PyCharm for free as long as you're a maintainer. They keep renewing my license. A 6-month trial isn't showing appreciation for OSS any more than "first crack hit's free" is showing appreciation for what a good person you are. It's just "you look like a promising customer".

what's the Github program here?

I mean, there's also the whole GitHub free tier. It used to only be for public repos, so mostly OSS plus "shared source", but now they allow it for private as well. But it still costs them money to host your code and provide CI minutes.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by epiccoleman »

guntars wrote: post #122
koinedad wrote: post #98

Sorry we stole all your src code that you labored over for hours and hours of your life. Here’s a few bucks for 6 months to help train our model even more.

People on a tech forum making "copying is theft" arguments lol

on open-source licensed code, no less
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