I am the author of multiple AGPL systems, many in mainstream use. Early LLM models would spit out my code almost verbatim. Modern systems borrow heavily on the creative design of those systems.

One company first pirated my AGPL code (e.g. shipped it without my name, copyright notices, source availability, etc.). I sent them violation notices. After many months of fighting, they had an LLM clone the system. The LLM clone feels:

a) Buggy and bad compared to my code

b) Still, like it's basically my creative content

It's as if you asked an LLM to rewrite Harry Potter, with the same plot, but bad dialogue.

Mind sharing which repo that was?

Can an LLM write unseen plots with a greater dialogue ?