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If my understanding is correct, what's legally protected is reproducing a proprietary IP design rather than studying the design? If you create a new design tha
by 29athrowaway 2y ago
If my understanding is correct, what's legally protected is reproducing a proprietary IP design rather than studying the design?
If you create a new design that doesn't have the proprietary elements in it that's not grounds for copyright infringement?
- jazzyjackson 2y agoIf you studied the source code, you can't say you've independently created the copy, the trick with clean room design is the implementers are going off a specification which does not include copyrighted material. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design But maybe you could use one LLM to study the software and write a specification, then throw that over the wall to a different human who uses an LLM to write software based on that spec
- spwa4 2y agoSo you should do the same as with normal clean-room practices? LLM1: code -> english description of code LLM2: english description of code -> code And that would be clean room? Might be cool to automate that. I bet you could train LLMs to do exactly that.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoI mean in a copyright case it's going to come down to who's the author and what actions they performed, so to be safe I would still use two humans to do the job.