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>Now, I don't think this has been tested in court yet, but it's very likely that code produced by ChatGPT or Copilot would be considered a derivative of the pro
by klausa 3y ago
>Now, I don't think this has been tested in court yet, but it's very likely that code produced by ChatGPT or Copilot would be considered a derivative of the prompt provided, and thus would be protected by copyright just as much as a compiled binary.
That would be very surprising to me; given that we have already few rulings that images produced by AI are not copyrightable.
Is the argument here that code is more "substantial" as an input than just a "make me a pretty image" prompt, and therefore would qualify for different rules?
- tsimionescu 3y agoI would see two arguments. One is, yes, if the prompt is complex enough I think that changes the ruling. Secondly, the fact that output is the same kind of media as the input I would think is relevant. An image carries vastly more information than a text response, so it's much more arguable that the output is substantially the contribution of the AI, not based so much on the input.