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> implementation of a skybox algorithm from 1999 How would you know? Do you have another AI scan for copyright violations? In terms of a false negative how are disputes resolved? Seems like a massive attack surface for copyright trolls.
> Seems like a massive attack surface for copyright trolls. If you think any court system in the world has the capacity to deal with the sheer amount an LLM code can emit in an hour and audit for alleged copyright infringements ... I think we're trying to close the barn door now that the horse is already on a ship that has sailed.
If MegaCorp has massive $$$$, but everyone else has small $, then MegaCorp can sue anyone else for using "their" code, that was supposedly generated by an LLM. Most of the time, it won't even get to court. The repo, the program, the whatever-they-want will get taken down way before that.
Courts don't work by saying, "oh, but everyone is doing it! Not much we can do now."
Someone brings a case and they, very laboriously, start to address it on its merits. Even before that, costs are accumulating on both sides.
Copyright trolls are mostly not MegaCorps, but they are abusers of the legal system. They won't target Google, but you, with your repo that does something that minorly annoys them? You are fair game.