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Comment by mr_toad | original | All AI-generated code should be Open Source
[−]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".