There will eventually be a court case where an LLM reproduces creative code verbatim which clears the de minimis threshold. For example: https://twitter.com/mi

There will eventually be a court case where an LLM reproduces creative code verbatim which clears the de minimis threshold. For example: https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309 https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309 But the defendant won't be Microsoft — they just provided a tool, and that's legal. No, the defendant will be the downstream consumer who incorporated the code spat out by the LLM. It doesn't matter whether the LLM "learned" — intent is irrelevant and the defendant will have committed copyright violation regardless. The LLM can't copyright-wash the code — nobody can.