> If you analogy was you were a human who memorized every variation of a problem (and every other known problem)
This is mere assumption. AI is supposed to work like that, but that's a goal, and not the result of current implementations. Research shows that they do memorize solutions as well, and quite regularly so. (This is an unavoidable flaw in current LLMs; They must be capable of memorizing input verbatim in order to learn specific facts.)
> and there was a tiny perctange of a chance where you reproduced that exact varation of one you memorized
This is copyright infringement. Actionable copyright infringement. The big music publishers go after this kind of accidental partial reproduction.
> but then added an after the fact filter so you don't directly reproduce it...
"Legally distinct" is a gimmick that only works where the copyright is on specific identifiable parts of a work.
Changing a variable name does not make a code snippet "legally distinct", it's still copyright infringement.
Meh I still see that as a big oversimplification. Context matters. Even if the copyright courts often ignore that for wealthy entities. Someone reproducing a song using AI and publishing it as their own copyright infringement, a person specifically querying an AI engine, that sucked up billions of lines of information and generates what you ask it do with a sma probability it will reproduce a small subset of a larger commercial project and sends it to someone in a chatbox is not exactly the same IMO.
This is Github Copilot after all. I use it daily and it autocompletes lines of code or generates functions you can find on stackoverflow. It's not letting giving you the source code to Twitter in full and letting you put it on the internet as a business under another name.
This is mere assumption. AI is supposed to work like that, but that's a goal, and not the result of current implementations. Research shows that they do memorize solutions as well, and quite regularly so. (This is an unavoidable flaw in current LLMs; They must be capable of memorizing input verbatim in order to learn specific facts.)
> and there was a tiny perctange of a chance where you reproduced that exact varation of one you memorized
This is copyright infringement. Actionable copyright infringement. The big music publishers go after this kind of accidental partial reproduction.
> but then added an after the fact filter so you don't directly reproduce it...
"Legally distinct" is a gimmick that only works where the copyright is on specific identifiable parts of a work.
Changing a variable name does not make a code snippet "legally distinct", it's still copyright infringement.