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To be specific, the jump you are making is likening LLM output to non-free code, while on the surface level it makes sense, it's much closer to making stuff based on copied code. In the US at least, there's clear legal precedent that LLM fabrications are not copyrightable.
Blanket AI bans are enforceable, I'm not arguing against that, it's just that I don't think it's worth instituting, that it's not a good fit for this project. My argument is that a Lemmy development policy of "please mark which parts of your code are AI-generated and how you used LLMs, and we will evaluate accordingly" is better than "if you indicate anywhere that your code is AI/LLM-generated, we will automatically reject it".
My opinion is that the data disagrees with you: 1. https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/beyond-memorization-text-generators-may-plagiarize-beyond-copy-and-paste 2. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3543507.3583199 3. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949719123000213#b7 4. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ai-memorization-research/685552/ 5. Related high profile incident that is very telling: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsoft-uses-plagiarized-ai-slop-flowchart-to-explain-how-github-works-removes-it-after-original-creator-calls-it-out-careless-blatantly-amateuristic-and-lacking-any-ambition-to-put-it-gently/
I see many people doubt this says anything about training data copyright, beyond AI user copyright.
This isn't legal advice, I'm not a lawyer.
I don't mean in any way to imply that your opinion isn't sound, but simply that I don't agree with it here in the context of whether the Lemmy devs should accept or not PRs with any reported LLM usage.