Re: Ballot option: Allow AI-Assisted Contributions

On Wed Aug 5, 2026 at 4:36 PM CEST, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2026 at 10:59:27AM -0500, Gerardo Ballabio wrote:
>> As I understand it, the problem with copyright isn't that AI providers
>> might claim copyright. It's that *someone else* might claim copyright
>> because the AI scraped and regurgitated their code. That's still an
>> open legal question AFAIK.
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> So it's a lot more complicated than that.  For example, even if it is=20
> a court decides that it wasn't fair use to scrape New York Times to=20
> train the Perplexity's or Microsoft's LLM, it doesn't follow that the=20
> New York Times could sue an open source project under a copyright=20
> claim --- what is the likelihood that some of New York Times=20
> intellectual property would end up in some project's C code if they=20
> used Perplexity's LLM?

I think this wasn't the point at all. The issue may arise when the model=20
reproduces someone else's code in my codebase. Of course it's not going=20
to reproduce a newspaper in my C project.