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IANAL but the AI is a tool and presumably the code should be treated as any other auto-generated. Its the product of the tool user.

Unless the product includes code licensed by others, then - like any other repo - I don't see any license issue here.

If you mean there is no insight as to whether licensed code is included, that's one of the constraints of vibe-coding (which people often confuse with AI-assisted coding).

Its the job of the user to check and curate the contributions as they would any third-party human input (eg. via prs). Again though - that's not an AI coding issue, but a human process decision.



No, there is no copyright.

If you tried to sue someone for copyright infringement based on code that an LLM generated for you, you'd be laughed out of court.


But you were the one that used the LLM to generate it, so that’s your code, surely - how would unlicensed use of your code not violate copyright? Why didn’t they ‘just’ use an LLM to generate their own code?


The product is not owned by the tool user.

Use a hammer, you own the output. Use an intern, the intern does.

Of course if you're aren't a person you can't own anything.




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