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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[-] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm not a lawyer, no idea what would they argue, I just know the lawyer price beats being right many times.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 1 week ago

they have previously argued that llm output is transformative itself, but that's been struck down. i'm not sure what the next avenue they will take is but they will definitely take it.

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