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Re:Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday March 05, 2026 @09:27AM (#47261877)
Derivative works can also run afoul of copyright. An LLM trained on a corpus of copyrighted code is creating derivative works no matter how obscure the process is.
Re:Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite by wareya on Thursday March 05, 2026 @09:36AM (#47261988)
This actually isn't what legal precedent currently says. The precedent is currently looking at actual output, not models being tainted. If you think this is morally wrong, look into getting the laws changed (serious).
Re:Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite by Georgelemental on Thursday March 05, 2026 @09:39AM (#47262022)
What about a human trained on having 30 years of experience working with copyrighted codebases?
Re:Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite by mftrhu on Thursday March 05, 2026 @12:13PM (#47264299)
Said human would likely not be able to create a clean-room implementation of any of the codebases they worked on.
Re:Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite by aeon_ai on Thursday March 05, 2026 @10:29AM (#47262755)
Judge Alsup -- U.S. District Judge William Alsup said Anthropic made "fair use" of books, deeming it "exceedingly transformative."

"Like any reader aspiring to be a writer, Anthropic's LLMs trained upon works not to race ahead and replicate or supplant them — but to turn a hard corner and create something different"

Re:Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite by danlitt on Monday March 09, 2026 @05:21AM (#47306627)
This quote is both funny and sad. It reads like an advertisement.