I admit I know nothing about what programs RedHat has contributed to, or what their plans are. I am only familiar with the GPL in general (I use arch, btw). So I tried to have Bing introduce me to the situation. The conversation got weird and maybe manipulative by Bing.
Can you explain to me why Bing is right and I am wrong?
It sounds like a brazen GPL violation. And if RedHat is allowed to deny a core feature of the GPL, the ability to redistribute, it will completely destroy the ability of any author to specify any license other than MIT. Perhaps Microsoft has that goal and forced Bing to support it.
“programmed to” sounds like a human sat down and wrote explicit instructions for how to answer this specific question. It might also just be that the language model was trained on texts that predominantly said that RHEL is not violating the GPL. I don’t think anyone outside Microsoft can know which one it is.
LLM like Bing actually start with long lists of instructions written in English which govern how it will behave. Previously, users tricked Bing into revealing those instructions. If the group that owns the chatbot wants to push an agenda on the public, they can easily add it to those instructions. This possible public manipulation is something I think we should be concerned about.