[smcameron]

In the U.S., anything machine generated is uncopyrightable.

Why would you put uncopyrightable code into your codebase?

[gpm]

Why wouldn't you? Your codebase (if you're a business) exists to make you money, people being able to copy some unknown portions of it without further license if they somehow legally get their hands on a copy of it seems entirely irrelevant.

PS. I think this is much less clear and much less settled law than you are suggesting.

[ebiester]

It's more nuanced. If I even have a few lines I can prove are mine, those parts are copywritable in the same way Pride and Prejudice is public domain but pride and prejudice and zombies is copyrighted.

[siliconpotato]

Even worse...unmaintained code. Only the human-written one has a maintainer. The other one plagiariased by AI is instant legacy code

[exasperaited]

> The other one plagiariased by AI is instant legacy code

I have used this "instant legacy code" concept before. It's absolutely true, IMO. But people really, really, really hate hearing it.

[hdgvhicv]

Autocomplete has been around for decades

[ranger_danger]

I think if you dig a little deeper you will find that the answer is not so black and white.