This is pretty interesting, and I have conflicted feelings about the (seemingly obvious) outcome of this trial.
I wonder, if MS and OpenAI win, does that mean it will be legal for anyone to take the leaked source code for a proprietary product, train an LLM on it, and then ask the LLM to emit a version of it that is different enough to avoid copyright infringement?
That would be quite the double-edged sword for proprietary software companies.
I wonder, if MS and OpenAI win, does that mean it will be legal for anyone to take the leaked source code for a proprietary product, train an LLM on it, and then ask the LLM to emit a version of it that is different enough to avoid copyright infringement?
That would be quite the double-edged sword for proprietary software companies.