Comment by noduerme

If they had sent the machine code through a modem, out a speaker, into a microphone and back into a modem, that would've been illegal. So what you're talking about, really, is just a legal exemption that's been carved out for humans who do work from scratch themselves. There's nothing about cloning a BIOS with a team of people rebuilding it that is necessarily not IP theft, or legally sacred either. It's just that there's an even stronger case to be made that having an LLM do it is fundamentally not clean, because the LLM is itself just a massive decompiler / compiler. A bunch of humans performing the same action are somewhat exempt by custom.