[gdal-dev] RFC111 AI/LLM tool policy: proposal for a significant revision

[Even Rouault]

Le 06/05/2026 à 19:49, Greg Troxel a écrit :
> Even:
>
>    I would somehow keep the idea that it is not settled law if LLM output
>    is a derived work of the inputs, in the discussion of legal issues.  I
>    keep hearing that people are able to get LLMs to output training data
>    verbatim, proving it's in the model,
Please make a text suggestion in the PR if you want that point to be 
captured. Independently of whether the LLM would output verbatim, even 
if it is "creative", it looks like the legal opinion would be that it 
isn't copyrightable, because copyright is linked to human production. 
You could perhaps copyright the prompt (not sure, but why not? if it is 
creative enough), but not what the LLM has spit out from it.
>
>    Other than that, your revisions sound good to me.  If it turns out
>    other projects figure out a good way to interact and the legal issues
>    are resolved, this can be changed later.

My main issue is not about the legal aspect, more about the weird 
interaction process of having a machine generating code vs a human 
reviewing it. I truly believe that if you accept LLM generated code, 
then in practice, you must also give up on human reviewing.

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