Post #1844211
2026-03-06 16:02 UTC
If you "vibe code" something, or otherwise get a GenAI system to provide an output (image, code, text, whatever) based on your prompting, you ought to understand that you do not have any ownership in either the copyright or patent sense of that output. You didn't make it!
This means that you have effectively no legal basis to restrict what other people do with it. You cannot apply a copyright license to it, for example, or assign copyright to your employer or anyone else.
Ref:
https://www.theverge.com/policy/887678/supreme-court-ai-art-copyright
https://copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf
(the WTO and relevant treaties make this not only a US fact, despite me citing US-centric sources)
Replies (2)
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@justinsheehy@hachyderm.io 2026-03-06 16:04
Fascinatingly, this is essentially not related (in a legal sense) to the fact that when you use such a system you are likely to get some material that someone else has a copyright interest in and which is being provided to you with no regard for that creator's rights.
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@ibboard@hachyderm.io 2026-03-06 17:21
@justinsheehy@hachyderm.io Cue the slop-lovers whining about how unfair it is that someone stole "their work", with zero sense of self-awareness or irony! 🙄 (It already happened with prompts. Yes, prompts. Someone complaining that other people "stole their prompt" and we're basically illegally ripping off their work!)