Comment by fxtentacle
3 days ago
"This seems to be largely a copy of the work done in OxCaml by @mshinwell and @spiessimon"
"The webpage credits another author: Native binary debugging for OCaml (written by Claude!) @joelreymont, could you please explain where you obtained the code in this PR?"
That pretty much sums up the experience of coding with LLMs. They are really damn awesome at regurgitating someone else's source code. And they have memorized all of GitHub. But just like how you can get sued for using Mickey Mouse in your advertisements (yes, even if AI drew it), you can get sued for stealing someone else's source code (yes, even if AI wrote it).
Not quite. Mickey Mouse involves trademark protection (and copyright), where unauthorized commercial use of a protected mark can lead to liability regardless of who created the derivative work. Source code copyright infringement requires the copied code to be substantially similar AND protected by copyright. Not all code is copyrightable: ideas, algorithms, and functional elements often aren't protected.