A thought occurred to me regarding this mess we're in regarding #LLM generated code.A major underpinning of the legal ar...

A thought occurred to me regarding this mess we're in regarding #LLM generated code.A major underpinning of the legal argument behind the use of such tools is that, a machine "generated" the code, therefore copyright does not apply and they can re-license and re-attribute the code as they see fit.It seems to be an echo of the David J. Slater vs Wikimedia, Techdirt et all case from 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disputeThe argument came down in favour of the image being considered "public domain" because no human had actually composed and taken the photo, it was not eligible for copyright protection.In this case, there was no other "intellectual property" involved. Neither the equipment's manufacturer nor its owner, influenced the "ownership" of the photo, and no other person's work appeared in the generated image.Lyrebirds are famous for reproducing sounds, including human-generated ones like construction equipment and sirens. Imagine for a moment, a captiv...