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0 pointsglitch132mo ago0 comments

I saw a similar conversation somewhere about some project saying they don't allow AI generated code.

It was asked that if "AI Generated Code" is just code suggested to you by a computer program, where does using the code that your IDE suggests in a dropdown? That's been around for decades. Is it LLM or "Gen AI" specific? If so, what specific aspect of that makes one use case good and one use case bad and what exactly separates them?

It's one of those situations where it seems easy to point at examples and say "this one's good and this one's bad", but when you need to write policy you start drowning in minutia.

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kazinator2mo ago

Projects cannot allow AI generated code if they require everything to have a clear author, with a copyright notice and license.

IDE code suggestions come from the database of information built about your code base, like what classes have what methods. Each such suggestion is a derived work of the thing being worked on.

RevEng1mo ago

That is not correct because it hasn't been tested in court. In past decisions about who owns the output generated by a computer program the owner has been the operator of the program. You own your Word documents and Photoshopped images. There is good reason to believe that LLM output where you provided the prompt would also fit under that umbrella. We are still waiting for that to be tested in court.

kazinator1mo ago

OK, make that: many projects whose stewards understand copyright issues cannot accept code contributions whose copyright and licensing theory has not been tested in court.

sumeno1mo ago

Nobody is actually confused about what AI generated code means in those cases, they're just trying to be argumentative because they don't like the rules

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