alt Hacker News> which is about AI using code as input to produce similar code as output
> not about AI being trained on code
The two are very directly connected.
The LLM would not be able to do what it does without being trained, and it was trained on copyrighted works of others. Giving it a piece of code for a rewrite is a clear case of transformation, no matter what, but now it also rests on a mountain of other copyrighted code.
So now you're doubly in the wrong, you are willfully using AI to violate copyright. AI does not create original works, period.
Every programmer is trained on the copyrighted works of others. there a vanishingly few modern programs with available source code in the public domain.
it isn't clear how/if llm is different from the brain but we all have training by looking at copywrited source code at some time.