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> FWIW this seems to be the current interpretation of copyright laws when it comes to machine learning, at least in the US.

I think this is a sensible take. An AI should be able to learn to program from any source code it can see, just like a human.

> But few are arguing that training the model itself on any available source is violating fair use.

People argue this all the time on HN.

But these same people seem to believe it is just pasting bits of code it has seen before together, so I suspect they don't have the technical or legal understanding to comment sensibly.