2026-05-03 11:28 UTC
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@petealexharris@mastodon.scot 2026-05-03 12:52
@ShnoofleBear@curly.cat @danluu@mastodon.social It doesn't look like a lawsuit, but it does look like stern memos from the legal department of any company shipping code or a product containing code to stop using copilot immediately.
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@diazona@techhub.social 2026-05-03 21:25
@ShnoofleBear@curly.cat @danluu@mastodon.social The thing was that content isn't eligible for copyright protection unless it was created by a human, so there's an argument that the output of an LLM isn't copyrightable. However, when you get code out of an LLM, you presumably did have some input into the process by writing the prompt or original inpit and perhaps reviewing and tweaking the output, and that counts as "creating by a human". So it's not really a settled question yet, as far as I know. It is most certainly not true that the mere presence of LLM output in a program (or a commit) makes the whole thing ineligible for copyright protection. (standard disclaimer, I'm not a lawyer and this is not personalized legal advice, etc.)