I have a feeling that no matter what the outcome is here, it's not going to be satisfying. One extreme is AI is allowed to spit out copyrighted code verbatim a

I have a feeling that no matter what the outcome is here, it's not going to be satisfying. One extreme is AI is allowed to spit out copyrighted code verbatim as long as it technically goes through an AI first. Of course that defeats all open-source languages by adding a backdoor around them. The other extreme is that AI is not allowed to spit out a single line of copyrighted code, in which case we'll have endless lawsuits to figure out if CodeGPT used a GPL-licensed fast inverse square root or if it used the public-domain fast inverse square root. I think we'll land somewhere in the middle: If an AI regurgitates a "substantial" number of lines of code, then it's creators can be held liable (a.k.a. the "we'll know it when we see it" standard.)