[thunky]

> You don't own me. You don't own my output.

This is the disconnect we're having.

If you share a repo and Github and I learn from it, and I'm influenced by it, and I create my own project that I couldn't have created otherwise, then I'm not stealing your output or claiming ownership. I'm not using your work. I learned from it. To me this is all AI is doing.

I do agree that if it reproduces copywrited or licensed material then that is stealing and it should be held liable for that. Just like Google can't serve up copywrited material. But learning and creating a derived work is not reproduction imo.

The fact that you're willing to use a search engine but not AI is illustrative to me. Because if you squint at it, AI is just a smarter search index.