Question thread #147

[pauamma]

It's time for another question thread!

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- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
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Re: This might be a bit long

[brickhousewench]

All things that we're discussing at my job as well. Oh well, I thought it was worth throwing out as a question, if only to get the conversation started on this question thread.

at the level of a junior programmer

I keep forgetting about this, as we don't have entry level programmers at my company. So all the AI coding at my job IS being supervised by senior developers.

Who has the copyright on AI output

Only humans can own copyright. I believe that the human who submits the code is presumed to be the owner, and thus can assign the open source license (My company is open source, and that's my understanding of how our legal folks are interpreting things, but YMMV).

ethical issues

I personally know people who are involved in some of the lawsuits about training LLMs on copyrighted works. And I have my own concerns about power and water usage with AI. But I pretty much have to use it if I want to keep my job, so I'm sort of gritting my teeth and getting stuff done.

Thanks for answering!