Re: Super Simple AI Policy proposal

Akseli Lahtinen <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:20:25 +0200
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On Monday 24 November 2025 11:09:19 Eastern European Standard Time 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," or "the generated is
> not strictly the same as the source data so it has been transformed," etc.
> 
> To be frank, I think the best course of action is to sit it out and see
> where laws end up being.

I am definitely fine with this too. My main concern is, what do we say to
people asking about this?

> 
> Cheers,
> Vlad

Br,
- Akseli
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