[−]moritzwarhier · 2026-11-15 Sun 16:04 UTC ·
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Humans will often fail to take responsibility for derivative works though when they don't know what work the output is derivative of, and how strongly.
And that's assuming they want to make clear what they are building on.
The stakes in the output go both ways: wanting to profit from IP and risking liability because of violating IP licenses.
What you're saying is already the status quo, but reality is that LLMs make it so easy to "paraphrase" code or simply .. ideas, too... so that the whole concept of IP is eroding. Because the sheer scale makes it almost impossible to distinguish specific things that cross the line from "learning from" to "copying IP".
I'm not really taking a specific stance here but acting as if it would be a solved problem seems hard to believe to me, especially since it is not a new discussion.
I thinl you could argue that the solution is that copyright or IP concepts are not working anymore, something many people already concluded before the LLM and AI explosion of the 2020s.
But that's not the state of the current law, right?
In addition, your claim that the user of an AI system is the only person who has any "stakes" also seems questionable to me, because after all, we are talking about output that the AI user already paid an AI company for to generate it.
And that's assuming they want to make clear what they are building on.
The stakes in the output go both ways: wanting to profit from IP and risking liability because of violating IP licenses.
What you're saying is already the status quo, but reality is that LLMs make it so easy to "paraphrase" code or simply .. ideas, too... so that the whole concept of IP is eroding. Because the sheer scale makes it almost impossible to distinguish specific things that cross the line from "learning from" to "copying IP".
I'm not really taking a specific stance here but acting as if it would be a solved problem seems hard to believe to me, especially since it is not a new discussion.
I thinl you could argue that the solution is that copyright or IP concepts are not working anymore, something many people already concluded before the LLM and AI explosion of the 2020s.
But that's not the state of the current law, right?
In addition, your claim that the user of an AI system is the only person who has any "stakes" also seems questionable to me, because after all, we are talking about output that the AI user already paid an AI company for to generate it.
edit: word choice