alt Hacker News> All code must be compatible with GPL-2.0-only
How can you guarantee that will happen when AI has been trained a world full of multiple licenses and even closed source material without permission of the copyright owners...I confirmed that with several AI's just now.
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Even human developers are unlikely to have only ever seen GPL-2.0-only code.
Wait for court cases I suppose - not really Linus Torvalds' job to guess how they'll rule on the copyright of mere training. Presumably having your AI actually consult codebases with incompatible licenses at runtime is more risky.
NIT: All AI code satisfies the GPL license.
Anything generated by an AI is public domain. You can include public domain in your GPL code.
I would urge some stronger requirement with the help of a lawyer. You only need a comment like "completely coded by AI, but 100% reviewed by me" to make that code's license worthless.
The only AI-generated part copyrightable are the ones modified by a human.
I am afraid that this "waters down" the actual licensed code.
...We should start opening issues on "100% vibecoded" projects for relicensing to public domain to raise some awareness to the issue.
You take responsibility. That means if the AI messes up, you get punished. No pushing blame onto the stupid computer. If you're not comfortable with that, don't use the AI.