alt Hacker NewsBecause AI is also proving to be very good at reverse engineering proprietary binaries or just straight up cloning software from test suites or user interfaces. Cuts both ways.
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Oh sure, AI is a fantastic protection against copyright law. You do realize that if you're not going to be able that you wrote something you're wide open to claims of copyright infringement, especially if your argument is going to be 'it wasn't me that did the RE, it was the AI, the same AI that wrote the code'.
It's going to be very interesting to see 'cleanroom' kind of development in the AI age but I suspect it's not going to be such a walk in the park as some seem to think it will be. There are just too many vested interests. But: it would be nice to see someone do a release of say the Oracle source code as rewritten by AI through this progress, just to see how fast the IP hammer will come down on this kind of trick.
So the argument is just "AI is magic and any kind of software can be rewritten for free"? Not really sure I buy it...
Have you ever seen what obfuscation looks like when somebody puts the effort in?
Not to mention companies will try to mandate hardware decryption keys so the binary is encrypted and your AI never even gets to analyze the code which actually runs.
It's not sci-fi, it's a natural extension of DRM.
Reverse engineering is illegal in many jurisdictions, and especially in the USA thanks to the DMCA.
If the argument is just "They won't catch me", then yes you are correct.
But some of us are still forced to follow the law, whatever it might be.
Also: They still have patents on it.