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larodiyesterday at 6:29 PM2 repliesview on HN

The lack thereof (of human use). Prompts are not copyrightable thus the output also - not. Besides retelling a story is fair use, right? Otherwise we should ban all generative AI and prepare for Dune/Foundation future. But we not there, and we perhaps never going to be.

So the LLM training first needs to be settled, then we talk whether retelling a whole software package infringes anyone's right. And even if it does, there are no laws in place to chase it.


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fc417fc802yesterday at 9:10 PM

> Prompts are not copyrightable

Surely that varies on a case by case basis? With agentic coding the instructions fed in are often incredibly detailed.

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jcranmeryesterday at 7:14 PM

> Besides retelling a story is fair use, right?

Actually, most of the time, it is not.