alt Hacker NewsMost SO snippets likely aren't unique or creative enough to count as works. If a hundred programmers would write essentially the same snippet to solve a problem, it's not copyrightable.
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embedding-shape • yesterday at 11:22 AM
> Most SO snippets likely aren't unique or creative enough to count as works.
How is this different from LLM outputs? Literally trained on the output of N programmers so it can give you a snippet of code based on what it has seen.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. The famous "rangeCheck" function in the Google vs Oracle lawsuit was only 9 lines: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11722514