alt Hacker News> Humans can't claim ownership, but they are still liable for the product of their bot.
sure,
but that is completely unrelated to this discussion
which is about AI using code as input to produce similar code as output
not about AI being trained on code
> which is about AI using code as input to produce similar code as output
> not about AI being trained on code
The two are very directly connected.
The LLM would not be able to do what it does without being trained, and it was trained on copyrighted works of others. Giving it a piece of code for a rewrite is a clear case of transformation, no matter what, but now it also rests on a mountain of other copyrighted code.
So now you're doubly in the wrong, you are willfully using AI to violate copyright. AI does not create original works, period.