[License-discuss] Curious about derived works and AI...

[Josh Berkus]

On 5/18/24 17:06, Miles Georgi wrote:
> Hi! If I open-source a project with a free license, if code from that 
> project winds up being used as training data or prompt data to a 
> code-generating AI to generate similar code, would that generated code 
> be considered a derived work under any circumstances? And does that 
> potentially depend on what license is chosen?

This is very much a matter of current court cases, so any answer you get 
now you'd expect to be different in 2-3 years.  Also, edge cases like 
this will vary by country.

In other words: you will need to retain an attorney to answer this 
question, and they will likely tell you "it depends".

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Josh Berkus