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0 pointsTuxSH6mo ago0 comments

Indeed, LLMs cannot do truly novel thinking, and the laundering analogy is spot-on.

However they're able to do more than just regurgitating code, I can have them explain to me the underlying (mathematical or whatever) concept behind the code and write new code from scratch myself, with that knowledge.

Can/should this new code be considered as derivative work, if the underlying principles were already documented in literature?

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wizzwizz46mo ago

They can regurgitate explanations as well as code. I'd strongly recommend doing actual research: you'll find better (less-distorted, better laid out, more complete) explanations.

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0 pointsTuxSH6mo ago0 comments

Indeed, LLMs cannot do truly novel thinking, and the laundering analogy is spot-on.

Can/should this new code be considered as derivative work, if the underlying principles were already documented in literature?

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wizzwizz46mo ago

They can regurgitate explanations as well as code. I'd strongly recommend doing actual research: you'll find better (less-distorted, better laid out, more complete) explanations.

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