First of all, as gwern said in one of the top level comments: > False premise? Loads of artists hate DALL-E and AI art in general; they typically have much les

First of all, as gwern said in one of the top level comments: > False premise? Loads of artists hate DALL-E and AI art in general; they typically have much less feelings about Copilot. Unsurprisingly, for devs and DALL-E, it's the other way around. Secondly, if by theft you actually mean copyright infringement, which is not the same thing, I believe we are reaching the breaking point of copyright legislation. We are getting to the point where copyright is so detached from reality it is no longer maskable and the notion itself becomes nonsensical. As others have stated, even without AI, code gets routinely copied. There are only so many ways you can write a well defined, common knowledge algorithm, your version is bound to look like someone elses. Just like genes are a fundamental part of the biological world, memes are are a fundamental part of human society. They exist ever since humanity exists. They replicate (copy) and mutate (remix) and evolve due to selective pressure. Copyright is an aberration opposed to the very nature of memes, because it is a mechanism designed to restrict their replication and mutation.