> As a human, I am allowed to read copyrighted code and learn from it. An AI should be allowed to do the same thing. This is a non-sequitur. Why should it? >

> As a human, I am allowed to read copyrighted code and learn from it. An AI should be allowed to do the same thing. This is a non-sequitur. Why should it? > And nobody cares if my ten-line "how to invert a binary tree" snippet is the same as someone else's. Are you going to make up a rule for every length and type of code? What about twenty line? If ten lines are fine then surely twenty would be? How about pictures? If some code is then surely a picture or two wouldn't hurt? Let's just tweak the AI slightly so it regurgitates more code verbatim -- or do courts have to examine any change made to the AI and okay them? > Nobody is really being hurt when a new tool makes it easier to copy little bits of code from the internet. The Windows source code can be found on the internet. As a human you're allowed to read that if you have it. Try making an AI that copies bits of that into your code and release that on the internet.