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[–] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

Be careful there, open source is very distinct from copyright free. Notably, anything under a copyleft license, such as GPL, is considered open source while still being protected by copyright in a way that restricts how that code is used. There is a strong argument to be made that AI trained on copyleft code and generating new code based on that training is in violation of the license and thus copyright.

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  • Fair enough. I'm sure that that will be thrown into the litigation machine over AI copyright with the rest of it. As for new code generated off of it, I would be incredibly shocked to find out that any user ever that didn't specifically use AI with the actual knowledge and intent of copyright violation would ever have even a little bit of legal consequence from it.

    Regardless, that's my employer's possible future problem. Not mine. I'm not doing a lot of coding projects in my spare time. Even if I were, I'm not paying for tokens to do what piddly shit I do write.

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