I’ve also been trained on copyrighted material, because every codebase I’ve worked on for money has been proprietary.
Does that mean I can’t touch open source code? I could accidentally use a snippet I’ve written before in some other setting.
The real licensing issue of AI use shouldn’t even apply to Linux because it’s already GPL. GPL infects anything it touches so if you use GPL-trained AI on an MIT project and it spits out something resembling the GPL code it was trained on, that would make that MIT project a GPL project. It would also make your proprietary projects GPL projects.
You’re unlikely to spit out code from your corpus verbatim, so the answer to your first question is a resounding no. If you did copy from your previous jobs, you’d be liable.
Hi, I’m a software engineer.
I’ve also been trained on copyrighted material, because every codebase I’ve worked on for money has been proprietary.
Does that mean I can’t touch open source code? I could accidentally use a snippet I’ve written before in some other setting.
The real licensing issue of AI use shouldn’t even apply to Linux because it’s already GPL. GPL infects anything it touches so if you use GPL-trained AI on an MIT project and it spits out something resembling the GPL code it was trained on, that would make that MIT project a GPL project. It would also make your proprietary projects GPL projects.
You’re unlikely to spit out code from your corpus verbatim, so the answer to your first question is a resounding no. If you did copy from your previous jobs, you’d be liable.