Comment by apatheticonion
14 days ago
Does this mean someone could develop a switch emulator using an AI and Nintendo couldn't win a lawsuit against them?
Does it enable decompilation remasters of classic games?
It feels like AI is a cleanroom laundromat
No, an AI's output can still violate copyright.
Not a lawyer, but I'd expect that decompilation creates a derived work which is still subject to the copyright of the original.
If you engineer a clean room process, it does not. Already proven with an open source project that went from GPL to MIT via clean room (chardet).
Exactly this. Using an LLM to study the decompiled output then another LLM to implement an emulator/engine/etc
That sounds similar to how LLMs have been trained on GPL code and yet output is not (yet) considered derivative work
Im not sure it’s really a copyright issue here, and not patent or trademark related, or something else. Copyright is really only one aspect of IP laws and they all have their own legal nuances
Definitely not clean room, quite the opposite.
“That doesn't give you copyright, but it does give you liability for the content.”