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Re:Asking ChatGPT to write my security-sensitive code for me by manholio on Saturday January 07, 2023 @07:11AM (#34287353)
In the case of ChatGPT, you can be almost sure that if a non-trivial amount of code works in production then it's an unlicensed paraphrase of some human written code. It treats code (and everything else) like prose, hence the atrocious results in the original story.

That does not mean other coding-optimized AI models won't be able to do much more, symbolic reasoning about the data, maintaining consistent variable and function names, understand libraries, respecting language constraints and invariants etc.

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Re:Asking ChatGPT to write my security-sensitive code for me by williamcotton on Saturday January 07, 2023 @07:33AM (#34287469)
There’s no such thing as an “unlicensed paraphrase” of small snippets of utilitarian software, at least in US copyright law.

You might have moral qualms with this but you won’t find much of any support from the court system.

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Re:Asking ChatGPT to write my security-sensitive code for me by manholio on Saturday January 07, 2023 @07:48AM (#34287565)
It's clearly a derived work, since the apparatus that has produced the work (the AI model) can only function when supplied with copyrighted works - in fact it cannot exists without copious amounts of such works. If there is even a passing semblance between a source work and the output, such as, for example, similar code structure and different variable names, then you are legally fucked.

I'm sure courts will clear this mess up really soon, and I'm betting money the rulings won't subscribe to the "it's mine now" mantra of the AI crowd.

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Re:Asking ChatGPT to write my security-sensitive code for me by williamcotton on Saturday January 07, 2023 @08:01AM (#34287640)
Do you actually want to bet money on this? I’m willing to play!
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Re:Asking ChatGPT to write my security-sensitive code for me by speedgoose on Saturday January 07, 2023 @07:52AM (#34287591)
Is there any planned court case about the copyright fair use question ?
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Re:Asking ChatGPT to write my security-sensitive code for me by speedgoose on Saturday January 07, 2023 @07:20AM (#34287392)
I think ChatGPT switch to OpenAI codex when it writes code. It’s the same model that GitHub Copilot uses.
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