Hi, >> Generative AI tools **produce** derivatives of other people's copyrighted >> works. > >They *can* do that, but so can humans (and will). Humans look at a >product or code and write new code that sometimes resembles the >original very much.
Can I ask the LLM where it was probably inspired? Can I show the LLM another work and ask it whether there might be a chance theu got inspired by it (and get a different answer than that it probably sucked in everything, so yes)? Is there a chance that the LLM did not only read some source code, but also had friendly interactions with the author? Admittedly, at that point, we get into philosophical questions, which I don't consider any less important for free software. -nik
