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Unless patented, are we not in a situation in which all publicly accessible code can be laundered through LLMs? If I find a source available code, I can just launder it? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 12 points 4 months ago (7 children)

pretty much, with the caveat that code that has gone through an llm can't ever be licensed or copyrighted. it's basically a public domainifyer.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    That doesn't seem to stop corporations assuming their software is still theirs even when an LLM wrote a lot of it.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    No, code that has been purely written by an LLM is not copyrightable.

    As soon as a human writes a prompt, a correction, a design guideline, a code review, it becomes a question of who has the better lawyer. Which I would bet the billion dollar Corp has the better chances.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    so they would have to argue what counts as a transformative work of plagiarism. how much of a stolen painting you have to paint over before it's no longer stolen.

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