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by dcow 35 days ago
When everyone is using LLMs to suggest IA, build basic UIs, dump out your startup in a day, etc. everything will look the same, even the source code. There will be no way to litigate this. Does it benefit society to force two companies to make their products look different? Where’s the outrage over all basic pencils looking the same? Let the market decide which pencils it prefers.
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> Where’s the outrage over all basic pencils looking the same?

This would fall under patents (design patent at the very least), not copyright.

Furthermore, the English verbiage between the two are literally exactly the same. That's a clear copyright violation.

Changing a few words is thus enough to clear this case. What's the point of this exercise exactly?

Both products are so incredibly derivative and boring that I find it very, very hard to care about this "case".

If the UI was novel enough then there would be a software patent for it in this case. Anyway I’m not sure what your point is? Copyright is a dated concept and AI only reinforces that. Do you really believe the first one to prompt an AI in a specific way should be allowed to enforce exclusive ownership of the output? That’s insane.
Its sounds like you are taking a side.