Le 2026-02-20 15:09, Peter Dimov via Boost a écrit :
It can't be correct, because if it were, you wouldn't be able to produce a non- infringing work either, if you have ever been exposed to a copyrighted one; the exposure has altered your mental state, so your output is tainted by definition.
IIRC, some employers are forbidding their engineers to look at their competitors' patents for this exact reason : they don't want to be accused of some sort of plagiarism / patent infrigement if their engineers come to a solution that is too close from the patented one. I'm not sure how the same would not apply to an LLM. To add to the confusion in regards of AI-generated code, it seems that US and EU are somewhat diverging here, EU being, from what i understand, more protective of the original authors than what's happening in US. And there's the rest of the world, of course… A different approach exists, however. IIRC some companies are selling tools to detect potential licence infrigements in code base (typically, reuse of GPL-ed code, but also random snippets without licence, etc.). I never used them, don't know how reliable they are, but that could be worth a try if someone has access to such tools. Regards, Julien