Comment by Aloisius
3 days ago
What's up with people (or I suppose AI) including copyright licenses in AI generated code?
At least it's an MIT license, but since AI output isn't copyrightable, I'm unsure what the point is since people can legally ignore the license.
^ (not legal advice -- far from it)
If there some reason why one wouldn't be able to ignore the copyright license of something not protected by copyright, I'd love to hear it.
The copyright office has been quite clear (rightly so imo) that AI output is not protected by copyright without substantial human creative expression in the final product and purely prompt-created works simply don't qualify.
Indeed, I expect people muddling their codebases with AI output are going to find themselves in an interesting position of having to prove how much code humans actually wrote to enforce copyright claims if their code ever gets leaked.
That's just the copyright office of one country out of a couple hundred, the courts can overrule them, and legislation can change. However, I agree that currently in the US (or on code written in the US) copyright probably doesn't inhere in AI-written code.
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