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Who owns the source code if AI is helping you write it? Is this a concern for companies that are copyrighting their code? What if multiple companies use this AI tool to implement an algorithm and then copyright it?

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IIRC, (US) copyright would be assigned to the person who used the tool*. Just like how your keyboard doesn't own the copyright to what you write with it.

* Existing contracts with copyright assignment clauses notwithstanding

at what point does a keyboard become aware enough to make it not copyrightable? If I instructed a monkey to press enter and create a poem with chatgpt, that work wouldn't be accredited to me or anybody.

How come a monkey makes it not eligible but GenAI is?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...

I don't believe there's settled case law to answer that question. Anyone's answer is speculation at this point until it actually gets litigated.

In a recent copyright application, the US Copyright Office wouldn't let me copyright my apps translations because I used Google Translate to help. I argued that I had created the original documentation (which they allowed) and that I had used Google Translate as a tool, typically doing several "round-trip" iterations to get the meanng across, but no joy. Here's an article from Ruters discussing the current state of copyright law with respect to AI in the US. https://builtin.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-copyright To say that the law is unsettled is fair, but the US Copyright Office has a definite point of view, given existing law.

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