[eschaton]

“Taint” has been a term of art in Open Source for decades. That you don’t know this reveals your ignorance, not any sort of cleverness.

LLMs regurgitate their training data. If they’re generating code, they’re not modeling the syntax of a language to solve a problem, they’re reproducing code they ingested, code that is covered by copyright. Just regurgitating that code via an LLM rather than directly from your editor’s clipboard does not somehow remove that copyright.

It’s clear you think you should be allowed to use LLMs to do whatever you want. Fortunately there are smarter people than you out there who recognize that there are situations where their use is not advised.