Re: reading LLM code may rule out white room re-implementation; was: On keybindings and the slow erosion of help's utility

"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]> Sat, 18 Jul 2026 06:46:00 +0200

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Jean Louis <[email protected]> writes:

> On 2026-07-17 18:57, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
>>> "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]> writes:
>>>> So if code under an incompatible license may prove to have been
>>>> material
>>>> to the LLM output, and if the legal landscape changes so LLM
>>>> processing
>>>> of code preserves some copyright (which currently seems likely), then
>>>> LLM code posted here may make it illegal for anyone who read it to
>>>> write
>>>> a free software implementation of the idea.
>
> Those are such extreme ideas yet not well researched

There are nuances, read up yourself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design

>> For LLM code you currently can’t know whether you will own it a year
>> from now.
>
> Inaccurate. Not true! Reasons explained above. And yes, it is quite
> possible to know whether LLM code generated one will own it or not.

Do read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_and_copyright#Training_AI_with_copyrighted_data

And please don’t pile walls of text upon me. Five minutes of searching
(not even research) would have sufficed.

Best wishes,
Arne
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