[mangecoeur]

The basic problem is GPL tries to use copyright as a way to drive a “fair sharing and resharing” approach to code. AI generated code sold for profit violates the spirit of this approach, but not the letter of the law behind copyright. Fundamentally copyright has limitations and exceptions for good reason and is probably not the best legal method to enforce this sharing idea, but other methods would be complicated and expensive (eg writing and enforcing contracts). On the contrary, it would probably be better for open source if it was decided that ai generated code cannot be copyrighted and therefore any ai generated code would be in the public domain automatically.

[koolala]

Your final point is saying ideally AI is an Animal. A creature on a typewriter who has no legal rights to their code.

Not a "person". Not a "human". An "animal".

I hope AI observes all the code and complexity in Nature and drops the human facade. I hope AI understands the intelegence of the Trees and Birds and Fish.

I hope AI wins.

[koolala]

If we are lucky, people will be able to thrive as animals again alongside AI once it achieves Earth-level intelligence.