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0 pointsivan_gammel2mo ago0 comments

> No, it's not that simple. AI generated code isn't owned by anyone, it can't be copyrighted, so it cannot be licensed.

There is no way to reliably identify code as AI-generated, unless it is explicitly labelled so. Good code produced by AI is not different from the good code produced by software engineer, so copyright is the last thing I would be worried about. Especially given the fact that reviewing all pull requests is substantial curation work on the side of maintainers: even if submitted code is not copyrightable, the final product is.

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heavyset_go2mo ago

At least with LLM providers, they have your prompts and output, and if they wanted to, they could identify what code was AI generated or not.

Maybe they can be subpoenaed, maybe they can sell the data to parties who care like legal teams, maybe they can make it service anyone can plug a GitHub repo into, etc.

BoredomIsFun2mo ago

Jokes on you - I run LLMs only locally, and besides the most widely deployed code generating tool AFAIR is JetBrain tiny ~200M LLM, builtin into their IDE.

ivan_gammelOP2mo ago

Do you really think anyone is ready to spend money on legal to prove that some piece of code is public domain/has no author? That’s an expensive bet with uncertain outcome. And of course you can recover some information only if logs exist, which might not be the case, especially if local inference was used.

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