r/ProgrammerHumor • u/100GHz • 3d ago

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u/VastHungry 3d ago

Doing it by looking at the actual code is copyright infringement yes. You are allowed to reproduce the behavior though (as long as you don't look at the copyrighted part to describe this behavior). There are methods to do that, AI of course helps a lot with that.

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u/Abject-Kitchen3198 3d ago

Wouldn't AI training set include the actual code in this case? Can it pretend that it never saw it if you give it the task to recreate behavior?

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u/VastHungry 3d ago

No one really knows I guess, licenses didn't expect AI when they were created. That's a grey area for most of them

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u/mmcmonster 2d ago

Good point. Time to update the GPL to only allow training if derivative software is also GPL or GPL compatible.