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Yeah, I really don't think we want APIs to be protected by IP. But in this case it isn't just the API, there were also tests involved. I think you could make a
by thayne 7mo ago
Yeah, I really don't think we want APIs to be protected by IP. But in this case it isn't just the API, there were also tests involved. I think you could make a pretty strong argument that if you used a test suite to get an agent to implement some code, the code is a derivative product of the test code.
- devonkelley 7mo ago[dead]
- AnthonyMouse 7mo agoOne of the interesting things here is that copyright is for expression and patent is for function. You can't copyright function.
- dTal 7mo agoWhat exactly is the difference between "a machine-readable contract for what the output has to be" and "source code"? What is the difference between an "agent" and a "compiler"? For that matter, what is the difference between "I got an agent to provide a high level description" and a decompiler? What is the difference between ["decompiling" a binary, editing the resulting source, recompiling, and redistributing] and [analyzing the behavior of a binary, feeding that description into an LLM, generating source code that replicates that behavior, editing that, recompiling and redistributing]? Takeaway: we are now in a world where software tools can climb up and down the abstraction stack willy nilly and independently of human effort. Legal tools that attempt to track the "provenance" of "source code" were already shaky but are now crumbling entirely.
- direwolf20 7mo agoI really don't think a book is a derivative work of the AI model you used to proofread it.