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I haven't dug into the code, but blanket hate for AI in code is extremely frustrating. There's a difference between vibe coding and the hundred other ways to "use AI" on a project.
I understand this but, you have to consider the ecological impact of it, the thousands or more people whose work was stealed to train AI, the constant shoving of AI into everything and the problems that have arise from it, the campain AI companies did and do telling people they are going to lose their jobs and constant fearmongering, the constant blatantly lying of "AGI achieved", the layoffs by senile CEOs, the debt that is causing because stupid people in power gonna be stupid, etc. There are plenty of reasons to hate AI and what it is doing to our world and people lives in general. Sure there are positives but the negatives clearly outweighs the positives.
On top of that, regardless of however you feel about AI, there are so many questions about copyright and ownership here, that as-of-yet remain untried and unanswered by the courts, that it's essentially impossible to know what the legal ramifications will turn out to be, when accepting "AI code" in your project. I definitely fear that it could turn out to be a sort of trojan horse against especially the GPL, and other copyleft licenses. I conaider it to be risky to use AI code, on that basis alone.
True, but how will you prove that code was written by AI and not yourself? Any people can generate code, modify some variables to incorporate in their code, and it won't be any different than copying it from stackoverflow. Unless the code is written in a "very specific AI way" it won't be possible to distinguish.
Oh, I don't think any court would rule that using LLM generated code automatically infringes on the copyright of everyone whose text was used to train it, independently of the degree of similarity between the generated output and the original text(s).
But LLMs have a habit of sometime, and not too infrequently either, reproducing parts of their training material verbatim, as their output. As long as it's only sufficiently small "snippets" of text or code, it's unlikely to raise significant copyright concerns - but the fact is that it's not actually that rare that an LLM will replicate larger sections of text from its training material, spanning across many lines. What's more, LLMs don't advise you of this, when their output is a replica of a significant part of an already-existing, copyrighted text. But you'll be infringing on somebody's copyright, whether you know it or not, irregardless of whether you aquired the text from an LLM or elsewise. That's a big liability to accept in a large project, that frequently uses LLM-generated code. It would be a minefield.