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Comment by skhameneh | original | All AI-generated code should be Open Source
[−]skhameneh · 2026-11-15 Sun 16:30 UTC · link
It’s so reasonable, it’s almost offensive. /s

I’ve encountered (many times) people talking about the copyright office as if they don’t support copyright of things touched by AI and I’m constantly correcting them that their guidance is driven by human expression (and not the tools used). It seems like a lot of people don’t want to accept that a reasonable premise is set because it doesn’t fit their agenda or outrage engagement.

[−]mr_toad · 2026-11-15 Sun 17:11 UTC · link
Would you argue that the output of a zero or one shot prompt was sufficiently influenced by human creativity to qualify for copyright?
[−]jrmg · 2026-11-15 Sun 18:03 UTC · link
With the caveat that this is my own extrapolation of the rules - and what I think is reasonable: How creative was the prompt?

"Translate my very detailed pseudocode into Ruby: <pages of pseudocode>": probably.

"Write me a game about a horse. Don't stop until it's finished. Make no mistakes.": probably not.

And unfortunately for us engineers, there's a very big, fuzzy, not-precisely-definable range in between of "I'll know it when I see it".