RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116426152872895154
Christine Lemmer-Webber as per usual really articulated well, something ive been trying to say much less elegantly. (Conclusion quoted here beginning of the sub-thread here: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116426025287444979 )
My fear is with these few possible realistic outcomes:<li>The output of AI is a derivative work of the training data. LLM generated code containing near-verbatim copies of others code is legally unusable.</li><li>The output of AI code is effectively public-domain; and FLOSS and proprietary software face copyright mexican standoff. With LLMs able to scrub the copyright off code.</li>
We are in fact hurtling towards a third: <li>The output of AI code is effectively public-domain, but courts consistently side with big tech in protecting their products in a "let them have their cake and eat it too" style hypocrisy which eventually becomes normalized.</li>
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