alt Hacker News> Also, the output of the LLM is public domain by law
Why so? Also there is a lot of code in ironically claude and ChatGPT that’s generated by LLM . Yet I haven’t seen the public domain code
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danlitt • yesterday at 10:08 PM
The code is not eligible for copyright. If they do not give you a copy of the source code, that does not matter. And if you don't know which parts were generated by LLM, you can't safely reuse the code.
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See: https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2026/03/us-supreme-court-de...