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Comment by Kevin_Flynn | original | All AI-generated code should be Open Source
[−]Kevin_Flynn · 2026-11-15 Sun 16:15 UTC · link
I can understand the case being made on "purely AI generated code."

But thats also why its buggy.

As soon as I start refining it, and commanding the AI to fix the mistakes, this argument starts to lose ground fast.

The tech community has adopted open standards for as long as I've been alive, and the AI is using these open standards as much as it is actual code.

Perhaps an open standard to prevent code from being used as training ( it probably already exists, i dunno ).

Methods to detect it ( I've seen that showing up recently. Using AI to detect AI. )

Some sanctioned actionable penalty under provable circumstance as the resolution ?

You can see why the copyright office wants to treat this as any other thing.

The details of proving claims get complicated quickly.

[−]antonvs · 2026-11-15 Sun 16:27 UTC · link
> As soon as I start refining it, and commanding the AI to fix the mistakes, this argument starts to lose ground fast.

Definitely. And if the result isn’t essentially a clone of some existing copyrighted work, there really is no viable argument under current copyright law.