Mastodawn

Don't use LLM generated code in your projects yet! If for no other reason than that the legal case law is NOT ESTABLISHED YET.

I know there was the "copyright laundering" thing that went around a lot, but we actually don't know.

You'll see commenters everywhere on the internet say that "the US Supreme Court ruled that AI generated output is in the public domain". That's misinfo: they *declined to take on* a case from a lower court coming to that conclusion. The US Supreme Court hasn't yet ruled.

And this hasn't shaken out in an international setting yet either.

You may be surprised to hear: I actually think it's more dangerous and empowers centralized AI companies even more if it *isn't* the case that AI output is in the public domain (I'll follow up about that), but regardless, right now we just don't know.

But despite that, I'm STILL saying that you're putting yourself in legally dubious territory right now if you include LLM generated code, for now. We don't know yet.

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RootWyrm 🇺🇦

Mar 13

@cwebber the US is not a country of laws, period. What USPTO says doesn't matter.

The EU however, just 3 days ago adopted text. LLM scammers MUST comply with licenses including payment to train on copyrighted work, regardless of location. And purely LLM generated slop *cannot be copyrighted*. There MUST be significant human contribution.

So purely LLM generated slop to try and license wash something is pretty much definitively unlawful now.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260306IPR37511/protecting-copyrighted-work-and-the-eu-s-creative-sector-in-the-age-of-ai

Protecting copyrighted work and the EU’s creative sector in the age of AI | News | European Parliament

To protect the creative sector in the EU, the use of copyrighted work by artificial intelligence requires transparency and fair remuneration, Parliament says.

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RootWyrm 🇺🇦

@cwebber and remember, these are the dipshits pissing off the old companies that have infinite dollars by stealing *their* stuff. The people who spent millions turning copyright into a way to maintain monopolies and permanent rent-seeking.
The people who have used copyright as a weapon for many decades are decidedly not fans of 'companies' stealing the things they own to generate and sell things based on it.
And the LLM grifters absolutely do not have the money to pay them off.