The are two salient differences here: 1) You are a thinking adult - or a thoughtful teenager :) - and therefore you understand copyright law well enough to tak

The are two salient differences here: 1) You are a thinking adult - or a thoughtful teenager :) - and therefore you understand copyright law well enough to take responsibility for copyright law, and in particular you are capable of having standing in legal matters. AI is not, but it is quite capable of creating infringing code (eg GNU stuff) that human reviewers wouldn't even know was infringing. So it is much better for any honest and competent organization to ban commercial LLMs entirely. (I am fine with in-house solutions with 100% validated training data...but those aren't very good yet, are they?) 2) I am a broken record on this, but the biggest problem with the "stochastic parrots" analogy is that transformer ANNs are dramatically dumber than parrots, or any other jawed vertebrate (I am not sure about lampreys). As applied to code generation: when I first tested ChatGPT-3.5, I was shocked to discover it was plagiarizing hundreds of lines of F#, verbatim, including from my own GitHub. Obviously that's outrageous in terms of OpenAI's ethics. But it is also amazing how dumb the AI is! Imagine a human programmer who is highly proficient in Python, and pretty good at Haskell, yet despite reading every public F# project in GitHub it can't solve intermediate F# problems without shameless copying. It is a completely misleading comparison to say that humans reading source code is anything like transformers learning patterns in text. The most depressing thing about the current AI bubble is watching tech folks devalue human intelligence - especially since the primary motivation is excusing the failures of a computer which is less intelligent than a single honeybee.