Comment by codingdave
12 days ago
> the settled law is that such an LLM reproduction is 100% legal.
My understanding was that re-invention without copying any code is legal. But scraping code from the browser and re-using it is not. I'd love to know how that plays in the courts with LLMs, as their entire model comes from copying code as training material, not writing new code from scratch.
Sorry to have been unclear - I did mean "clean room". But an LLM can easily jump through the loopholes currently required for that.
Regular humans train on copying code too (Stack Overflow, etc.) so unless they were trained on that specific codebase, I really doubt you have any sort of legal standing. And given how little compensation the authors got when their work got trained on, I wouldn't hold out hope for a big payout even then...