Comment by hn_submit
14 days ago
Does this also extend to generated source code? I mean, this upend the business models of many A.I. companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. In addition, many ISVs would probably stop using A.I. if their products could lose their copyright.
And what about A.I. generated code which has been altered by a human? Is the derived work copyrightable?
And this is one of the reasons some people are up in arms about Anthropic's recent inclusion of watermarking against anything Claude models touch. It will even take human-generated code that it works on and apply watermarks to it which can be then used to prove it was AI processed and perhaps invalidate any copyright on even human-written code.
But even if it wasn't watermarked and someone later found out or a whistleblower revealed that the code was A.I. generated it could lead to the loss of copyright.
Imagine what this would do to a product like Microsoft Windows or Microsoft Office!