>the idea that all human-readable code accessible on the public internet can be ingested into such a system without regard for its license would effectively mea

>the idea that all human-readable code accessible on the public internet can be ingested into such a system without regard for its license would effectively mean that anything posted to the public internet is entered into the public domain It clearly isn't in public domain. But if we define something new, public knowledge domain. This being material it is legal for a human to look at and learn from. They gain no rights to copyright or IP, but they can learn from it and use it per the existing limits of copyright and IP. Saying that anything posted online gets entered into public knowledge domain seem agreeable. Few things wouldn't be allowed here, generally material that is agreed upon to be illegal world wide (and some countries may have tighter limits, like a theocracy banning someone from learning anything from material deemed blasphemous). Then it is a question of if an AI can also learn off of such material as long as it doesn't produce works that violate existing copyright or IP laws, same as a human. This doesn't seem, on its face, inherently ridiculous. There are still corner cases and potential for abuse, but those also exist with copyright law yet we don't throw the whole system away and just ban all forms of copying or selling the right to copy.