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In the USA, code generated by a computer cannot be copyrighted. So you can use it for commercial purposes, but you can't control it the way you could with code that you wrote yourself. And that's legally fine, but your company's legal department might not like that idea.


That's not entirely accurate. In the US, computer-generated code can be copyrighted. The key point is that copyright protection extends to the original expression in the code, but not to its functional aspects, such as algorithms, system design, or logic.


This person has no idea what they're talking about. "Code generated by a computer"?


"works produced by a machine or mere mechanical process that operates randomly or automatically without any creative input or intervention from a human author"

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/us-co...


But this model can be used for more than generating code, no?




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