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by muzani 1340 days ago
It's reading the code and generating similar code, not copying it.
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Are you saying that's fair use? If so, then we won't see new licenses appear related to it, since a license can only give you more permissions on top of fair use, not take away fair use. If not, then we still won't see new licenses appear related to it, since the existing licenses already don't allow it.
Good point. I'm not a lawyer, but looking it up, the factors for fair use are:

1. the purpose and character of the use; 2. the nature of the copyrighted work; 3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used; 4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for the original work.

All of these are quite debatable, and I'll leave it to someone more familiar with the law.

Though if it's not, I believe there are licenses that allow derivative uses of code and licenses that don't. For many of these, the intention is that they create more code, but not be used to fuel AI behemoths.