[jbergqvist]

Does this matter in practice though? By modifying some of the generated code and not taking a solution produced by an LLM end-to-end but borrowing heavily from it, can't a human claim full ownership of the IP even though in reality the LLM did most of the relevant work?

[reverius42]

I think as long as the human puts in substantial and transformational effort, they can claim to be the copyright holder of the entire work, yes.

[eru]

Compare taking snapshots with a camera.

Because some photographer somewhere can claim to have put in a lot of effort, we all get IP protection for photographs by default.

[shagie]

In the US it isn't the sweat of the brow, but rather a minimal threshold of human creativity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St...

[reverius42]

Oh, good point. It's not related at all to effort then. Either way it still has to be a human.

[JAlexoid]

Software is considered a complete piece of work. Therefore as long as you modify a single character - that whole product is under your copyright.

[reverius42]

Not if they weren't taken by a human. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...

[eru]

Yes, I didn't include the monkey in my 'we'.