The problem I have with people with your maximalist view of copyright (maximalist when it comes to AI at least) is that many, many problems have a finite number of sane ways to accomplish a given specific task. Here, you're asserting copyright over the verbatim code (obviously that one's fair by any reading of the law), but even this other version that is "bad" is somehow also your property?
I know software patents, the worst idea in IP, do exist, but I think they're as toxically bad an idea now as they were decades before AI, when they were first invented.
You shouldn't be able to own an overall implementation idea. If you can, then Microsoft, Oracle, or Meta can too, and can start suing everyone for 'ripping off' an idea that they happened to come up with first. In that world, you'd have to consult a copyright-police AI (ironically) after every function you write, to scan it for ideas someone else has claimed. "Sorry, the function PadStringL() in this JavaScript is too similar in implementation to str_lpad(), from an AGPL library for perl that was released in 1998."
I know software patents, the worst idea in IP, do exist, but I think they're as toxically bad an idea now as they were decades before AI, when they were first invented.
You shouldn't be able to own an overall implementation idea. If you can, then Microsoft, Oracle, or Meta can too, and can start suing everyone for 'ripping off' an idea that they happened to come up with first. In that world, you'd have to consult a copyright-police AI (ironically) after every function you write, to scan it for ideas someone else has claimed. "Sorry, the function PadStringL() in this JavaScript is too similar in implementation to str_lpad(), from an AGPL library for perl that was released in 1998."