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[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 106 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (29 children)

Lawyer-turned-software-developer reporting in! (American, to be clear…)

My concern with AI generated code has to do with software licensing. Mainly…. What is the license of AI generated code??? What if it regurgitates entire sections of proprietary code? Unless I’ve totally missed some legal/tech news, these questions are FAR from settled.

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills sometimes, but that seems like something the Linux kernel community should be at least mildly curious about….

Look, to be fair, maybe they are! I don’t follow the kernel mailing list; I don’t know what they talk about. I’m just a humble backend developer/infrastructure guy.

But I know it worries me… personally, I mostly use LLMs in my own work via asking questions about code I’ve already written. Then I look at suggestions it’s made, or potential issues it points out, and decide what to do accordingly. But that’s just me!

[–] senslayer@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

AFAIK in general usage one popular argument is that genral LLM outputs only correspond a small percentage of infringing data due to dilution from their massive datasets (wish i could find the article this was from). A model can produce infringing content but in general its output likely doesnt infringe (or so the argument goes) so I think the current standard is verifying output is not infringing over copyright controls over all LLM outputs (aka the whole "you're responsible for your code" thing)

This doesnt change the fact a non-negligible portion of their dataset was obtained illegally however...

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Lawyer-turned-software-developer.

Are you the inverse of lawtechie from reddit?

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Well… I don’t know who that is, so… maybe?

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 1 points 57 minutes ago

They posted in the /r/talesfromtechsupport, IIRC. IT-turned-lawyer, mostly posting about IT security consulting.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 13 points 23 hours ago

It really seems like way too many people are just kinda going "eh, everyone else is doing it. It'd be impossible for the courts to force us to reverse course on this now." Like, there's no way the monkey is going to get the cork back in, might as well just get used to being covered in shit.

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I'm more miffed about GPL or copyleft code going to proprietary software and then being profited from without any attribution. It's a poison pill.

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Yes! This concern absolutely cuts both ways.

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