There's a big difference between learning and memorizing. If the AI is "learning" how it works by studying public code then using its knowledge to create, that

There's a big difference between learning and memorizing. If the AI is "learning" how it works by studying public code then using its knowledge to create, that's okay. But if it's just memorizing code and reciting it back, not okay. Just like if a human were doing this. Of course we don't currently have ways to know the difference [that I know of] since AI is a black box. Interestingly, current AI is not capable of truly understanding how code works and how it will execute, so it has to learn in it's own way. I suspect it can learn what valid syntax is, but I doubt it is aware of how the code will execute. It's possible this is just a case of Overfitting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfitting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfitting