Re: Super Simple AI Policy proposal

On 11/24/25 11:09 AM, Vlad Zahorodnii wrote:
> On 11/24/25 2:16 AM, Akseli Lahtinen wrote:
>> Contributor is always responsible for the code changes and creation,
>> regardless where the code came from, such as:
>> - Code was written completely by the contributor.
>> - Code was generated by an LLM/"AI" or any other tool.
>> - Code was given to contributor by someone else.
> It needs to be supplemented with a license.
>> - Code was copy-pasted from the internet.
> If the code has a license attached to it, sure. Otherwise, it seems 
> like a no-no thing. That being said, you can't also verify that that 
> code hasn't been copied from elsewhere, but I don't think that we 
> should say it's okay to do it. You can have a look at code and have 
> your own take on it.
>> Contributor must try their best to understand what their contribution
>> is changing and they must be able to justify the changes.
>>
>> Using any tools to help understand and justify those changes does not
>> change or reduce the expectations.
>>
>> The changes are attributed to the contributor, no matter whatever 
>> tools they have used.
>
> I am not a lawyer and I don't follow the legal stuff closely, but last 
> time I heard about the ownership attribution cases, it had still been 
> a muddy water thing. There are several schools of thought, each of 
> which has a leg to stand on: "it's a clever autocomplete machine, so 
> you can't claim ownership of a work, which is owned by somebody else" 
> or "you can't claim copyright just because you typed a query, you 
> didn't put in enough of creative effort to claim the ownership,"
i.e. anybody could type such a query so it should be either public 
domain, or owned by the company that operates the LLM depending on the 
terms of service
>  or "the generated is not strictly the same as the source data so it 
> has been transformed," etc.

s/the generated/the generated data/


> To be frank, I think the best course of action is to sit it out and 
> see where laws end up being.
>
> Cheers,
> Vlad
>