Comment by em-bee
1 day ago
if the generation is independent of the existing code
well, that's the big question, isn't it? if the code is used for training AI and the AI reproduces the same code, is that really independent?
i don't think so.
Copyright protects against copying. It doesn't protect against someone creating the same content by means other than copying.
if the code is the same, how do you prove it's not a copy?
it's the same problem as with plagiarism, isn't it?
btw, this is the reason why people who at some point of time may have had access to windows source code are not allowed to work on wine. because if wine accidentally reproduces windows code, the only defense is that none of the contributors have ever seen that code before.
if AI has seen that code in training, then this defense is no longer possible.