That's a fantastic piece of short fiction, but it is fiction. In practice though, I've seen so many copy&pasted unsourced open source snippets in proprietary co

That's a fantastic piece of short fiction, but it is fiction. In practice though, I've seen so many copy&pasted unsourced open source snippets in proprietary code that I've lost all ability to be surprised by it, and I can't think of any one time where the company was sued about that, let alone anyone facing any personal repercussions, not even those junior devs. And if anything, by being "lossy encyclopedias" rather than copy-pasters, LLMs significantly reduce this ostensible legal liability. Oh, and then you have the actual tech giants offering legal commitment to protect you against any copyright claims: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2023/09/07/copilot-copyright-commitment-ai-legal-concerns/ https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2023/09/07/copilot... https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/protecting-customers-with-generative-ai-indemnification?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/p...