There is no "from scratch" for "AI". Claude will read the original, launder it, strip the license and pass it off as its own work.

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TuxSH 5 days ago | parent [-]

Indeed, LLMs cannot do truly novel thinking, and the laundering analogy is spot-on.

However they're able to do more than just regurgitating code, I can have them explain to me the underlying (mathematical or whatever) concept behind the code and write new code from scratch myself, with that knowledge.

Can/should this new code be considered as derivative work, if the underlying principles were already documented in literature?

	▲	wizzwizz4 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		They can regurgitate explanations as well as code. I'd strongly recommend doing actual research: you'll find better (less-distorted, better laid out, more complete) explanations.