[jmaw]

I see the argument for whoever paid for the tokens. Or in the case of a free AI usage, the person who sent the prompt (or whoever they are acting on behalf of, i.e. the company they are working for at the time).

The primary issue being that it's all built on stolen data in the first place.

[pc86]

Even taking the least generous interpretation of what LLMs do and saying they're just "copy/pasting others' code" it's still not stealing because the original still exists and presumably still makes money. The original has to be gone for theft to have occurred.

In order to have a sane conversation about this we have to all agree not to lie.