[davebren]

It's not theft in the same way a con artist convinces you to give him all your money. The people using it or their employers just don't realize any competitor will be able to ask the LLM to replicate their product and it will copy the codebase they uploaded to them.

[scrollaway]

This isn’t how training works.

[skeptic_ai]

I think he’s saying let’s say I’m your competitor and I need your code and you happen to use the same llm they will provide me a copy of your code.

[rcxdude]

Yeah, which hasn't been demonstrated in practice at all.

[davebren]

It has. LLMs being able to one-shot any higher-order complexity is entirely dependent on it already being in the training data.

[scrollaway]

If it has been demonstrated, you're welcome to cite a paper or even study of any kind. Right now, you're just guessing. (I head an AI lab, FYI)

[davebren]

You could just test it for yourself if you're actually interested in finding out (assuming you are a decent programmer, but your bio suggests you have no technical expertise in the area).