Re: Is org-mode accepting AI-assisted babel ob- code updates?

[Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez]

You and your “friends” would need to sight the FSF paperwork…   In general, I’m allergic to IS since I saw a couple of paragraphs of my dissertation appear uncited in the output of one such things… Enviado desde mi iPhone El 6 mar 2026, a las 4:15, Laurence von Bottorff <borg...@gmail.com> escribió:  So "my" improvements to ob-sml are causing a problem -- is what this sounds like, right? If I had simply said, "Hey guys, me and a friend have done a new version ob-sml..." there would have been no problem? On Thu, Mar 5, 2026 at 6:52 PM Jim Porter <jporterb...@gmail.com> wrote: On 3/5/2026 3:53 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > Jim Porter <jporterb...@gmail.com> writes: > >> The US Supreme Court has recently affirmed that the outputs of >> generative AI aren't copyrightable; the "author" is held to be the >> computer, but copyright is only applicable to creative works authored >> by humans. The result is that the gen-AI outputs are public domain. > > That's the US, and Free Software rests on a shared understanding of > copyright that applies broadly (across Berne Convention countries). > > Did they really say that so precisely?   I can certainly see that there > can be no original copyright in LLM output, lacking a human, but I don't > see how copyrighted input works are laundered of their copyrights. Specifically, the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in Thaler v. Perlmutter[1], where the plaintiff argued that he should be allowed to copyright an AI-generated image. As far as I know, the court didn't address the question of whether it's legal to use copyrighted works as inputs to train the models in the first place. (Or what happens if an end-user prompts a model to regenerate an approximation of one of its copyrighted inputs.) I probably overstated matters when I said that gen-AI outputs are public domain without any additional qualifications. I suppose that only applies if the work isn't infringing copyright in the first place. [1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-declines-hear-dispute-over-copyrights-ai-generated-material-2026-03-02/ -- ⨽ Lawrence Bottorff Grand Marais, MN, USA borg...@gmail.com