alt Hacker News> If you sign off the code and put your expertise and reputation behind it, AI becomes just an advanced autocomplete tool and, as such, should not count in “no AI” rules.
No, it's not that simple. AI generated code isn't owned by anyone, it can't be copyrighted, so it cannot be licensed.
This matters for open source projects that care about licensing. It should also matter for proprietary code bases, as anyone can copy and distribute "their" AI generated code for any purpose, including to compete with the "owner".
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> No, it's not that simple. AI generated code isn't owned by anyone, it can't be copyrighted, so it cannot be licensed.
There is no way to reliably identify code as AI-generated, unless it is explicitly labelled so. Good code produced by AI is not different from the good code produced by software engineer, so copyright is the last thing I would be worried about. Especially given the fact that reviewing all pull requests is substantial curation work on the side of maintainers: even if submitted code is not copyrightable, the final product is.
Care to explain? I see that statement in this thread, but I am not sure where this is grounded in fact.
This is very interesting, because there must be a line here that AI is crossing, and the line is not clearly determined yet.
Is linting code crossing the line?
Is re-factoring code with automated tools like bicycle repair man crossing the line ?
Is AI doing a code review and suggesting the code crossing the line ?
Is writing code with a specific prompt and sample code crossing the line?
Is producing a high level spec and let the AI design details and code the whole thing crossing the line ?
So, where exactly is this line ?
The next interesting question is how this could even be enforced. It's going to be hard to prove AI use when using strictly local models. Maybe they could embed some watermark like thing, but I am not sure this can't be circumvented.
Would really like to see some legal opinions on this ( unlikely to happen :)
The best I found is here: https://copyrightlately.com/thaler-is-dead-ai-copyright-ques...