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It's funny how you pretend this is a 'moral' issue but then just end up with a copyright law conclusion.
This is a concern - though the legal question is still a bit open on this. The question has been around how much human involvement there has been. A purely "create me a photo of a cat" prompt generating a picture of a cat has very little human involvement (fully AI generated).
A "generate some code to do this, no make it do it this way, rename these variables, etc." prompt "conversation" may be treated differently by the law. We don't know yet.
It makes no sense to say to someone what they "should do" without the part where it's helpful to them flourishing or avoiding missery (i.e. morality). This can be expanded to include others in purely selfish terms.
There are no moral issues to AI if we ignore all negative ways it's creation (and use) affects people. Typical AI-creator take advantage of others' works on-mass while we've punished normal people harshly for far less infringement/social violations.
If the purpose of copyright is about encouraging human creativity then the AI generated elements which are clearly seperatable from human input should not be copyrightable? There can be creativity in writing promps but the resulting code output is not itself creative?