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I would laugh for a week if the courts eventually found issues with using LLM content and forced companies to either publish their LLM generated code as public domain or they were forced to roll back their codebases to a pre-LLM state.

Probably won’t happen but clearly Oracle sees a potential for legal issues with LLM output.

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Thing is public domain can be used any way you want. The Libre style licenses are specifically engineered to make the source available to the users of the source, no such clause exists in using public domain.

Public domain things sometimes even have their copyright registered by someone else and then the original author gets sued. You don't want public domain.

Assuming you're talking about US courts: this won't happen because courts and the legal system in general exist to preserve the wealth of the wealthy, and that means supporting whatever large corporations are doing. Perhaps they stop a little before things like allowing corporations to kill people. Oh wait...smoking and guns...never mind.

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