Post #4108458
2026-07-17 21:33 UTC
Nope, it hasn’t been litigated yet.
But it stands to reason that AI is a derivative of copyrighted material (unless the training set was released and confirmed to only contain otherwise). And there is loads of case precedent for fucking defendants hard on that violation
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@boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2026-07-18 09:50
Hi, I’m a software engineer. I’ve also been trained on copyrighted material, because every codebase I’ve worked on for money has been proprietary. Does that mean I can’t touch open source code? I could accidentally use a snippet I’ve written before in some other setting. The real licensing issue of AI use shouldn’t even apply to Linux because it’s already GPL. GPL infects anything it touches so if you use GPL-trained AI on an MIT project and it spits out something resembling the GPL code it was trained on, that would make that MIT project a GPL project. It would also make your proprietary projects GPL projects.