Is "MIT Software License but No AI" Possible?
1 derwoojer 4 6/23/2025, 6:59:04 PM
An old friend of mine teaches programming and is building out a teaching language to try and make sure students don't cheat on intro lessons.
https://github.com/itstheraj/PhraseLang?tab=License-1-ov-file
They put a license in saying that basically AI cannot index this code but I think this is kinda silly and a waste of time. They told me they want to see if they can make "MIT license but no AI" a thing and they hope more open source projects hop on the train.
I do see that if an AI was trained with this in the set it probably obliterates the educational value maybe. I can understand the motivation but uh....
I don't think this would work tho and I want to convince them they are going a little over board LOL - what do y'all think? Is it possible to make an "MIT License but no AI?" and have it be a thing?
My argument was like "how would you even prove that it trained on it bro?" and I think that's kind of a hard thing to do as well.