Re: A policy on use of AI-generated content in Debian

[Dominik George <natureshadow@debian.org>]

Hi,

>> Generative AI tools **produce** derivatives of other people's copyrighted works.
>
>They *can* do that, but so can humans (and will). Humans look at a
>product or code and write new code that sometimes resembles the
>original very much.

Can I ask the LLM where it was probably inspired?

Can I show the LLM another work and ask it whether there might be a chance theu got inspired by it (and get a different answer than that it probably sucked in everything, so yes)?

Is there a chance that the LLM did not only read some source code, but also had friendly interactions with the author?

Admittedly, at that point, we get into philosophical questions, which I don't consider any less important for free software.

-nik