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Re:Ownership of AI-Generated Code Hotly Disputed by safety1st on Friday December 30, 2022 @12:20PM (#34187176)
Even if that theory of operation were true, it seems like an implementation detail that would be largely irrelevant in a court of law. Infringement is infringement regardless of how complicated your method for committing it was. If your AI reproduces a copyrighted work verbatim without permission, surely you are committing infringement? If you would be infringing by doing it via copy and paste, I would think a court would be likely to find that you infringed when you used an AI to do it. It does not matter that the algorithm on the backend is fancy...
Re:Ownership of AI-Generated Code Hotly Disputed by falcolas on Friday December 30, 2022 @12:26PM (#34187245)
Personally, I agree with you. Others do not.

But irrespective of legality, my point is that attribution is not such a hard problem as people believe, because their mental model of what's going on is much more complicated than reality. I feel they are seeing it as a true AI (mostly non-deterministic and thus hard to observe) and not ML which is deterministic.