Comment by andriy_koval
5 months ago
> Doesn't that mean any code-base that uses AI generated code does not have an implicit copyright holder? And thus even the human constructor does not have the right to apply any license [closed/open] onto it whatsoever?
besides copyright, source code also can be protected as a trade secret.
For a company with any decent number of people with access to the code base, extremely difficult to maintain that type of protection.
I mean trade secret as a legal protection: code is declared as trade secret. Then if employee leaks it, and other company uses it, it can be sued.
It is not that simple. To have that protection, it needs to be treated (and protected) like an actual secret.
It’s why the nominal ‘top secret’ coke formula is stored in a giant vault.
If everyone at the company has access (and it’s a big company), good luck having that protection.
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That hinges on whether you can convince a judge that your LLM's slop meets the requirement of being inaccessible to other professionals of the same field, and that committing it to your repo meets the bar for keeping it secret.
I wouldn't hold my breath.