alt Hacker News> Right now it's very easy not to infringe on copyrighted code if you write the code yourself.
Humans routinely produce code similar to or identical to existing copyrighted code without direct copying.
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direwolf20 • today at 5:43 AM
And that's not an infringement. Actual copying is the infringement, not having the same code. The most likely way to have the same code is by copying, but it's not the only way.
They don’t produce enough similar code to infringe frequently. And if they did independent creation is an affirmative defense to copyright infringement that likely doesn’t apply to LLMs since they have the demonstrated capability to produce code directly from their training set.