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- on Signal will finally let you register without a phone number, for a price in c/technology@piefed.social · 17 Sep 2026
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on Copyrightability of LLM-generated code: Can we license “vibe code” into Free Software? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
That’s really going to depend on how strictly you define “vibe coded”. If that means that someone put in a single prompt and the LLM spit out an entire program, then yes, I doubt that would be copyrightable.
However, if the person “vibe coding” does understand how to program, and they use multiple prompts and organize the code to make a working product, then the code could be copyrightable by compilation:
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on Copyrightability of LLM-generated code: Can we license “vibe code” into Free Software? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
It’s a little more complicated than how you’re making it out to be and it’s also going to depend on where you live.
TL/DR: It can be copyrightable as a whole, but the output of a single prompt is not likely copyrightable.
The U.S. Copyright Office put together a report in 2025 on how AI is being handled in the U.S. as well as in other parts of the world.
See Section II - F: “Modifying or Arranging AI-Generated Content”
Generating content with AI is often an initial or intermediate step, and human authorship may be added in the final product. As explained in the AI Registration Guidance, “a human may select or arrange AI-generated material in a sufficiently creative way that ‘the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship.’”¹²⁶ A human may also “modify material originally generated by AI technology to such a degree that the modifications meet the standard for copyright protection.”¹²⁷
As several commenters noted, human authors should be able to claim copyright if they select, coordinate, and arrange AI-generated material in a creative way.¹²⁸ This would provide protection for the output as a whole (although not the AI-generated material alone).¹²⁹ A relatively common scenario in registration applications is the combination of human-authored text with AI-generated images. In one early case, for instance, the Office found that the selection and arrangement of AI-generated images with human-authored text in a comic book were protectable as a compilation.
Then if you skip to the conclusion of the report:
As described above, in many circumstances these outputs will be copyrightable in whole or in part—where AI is used as a tool, and where a human has been able to determine the expressive elements they contain. Prompts alone, however, at this stage are unlikely to satisfy those requirements.
If you’re curious where your country falls on the spectrum, see Section III - International Approaches.
Edit: added TL/DR.
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on Google mapped the brain and nervous system of a fruit fly, and modders forced it to play Doom in c/technology@piefed.social · 10 Sep 2026
Ok actually watching it play beat saber was pretty interesting as well: https://xcancel.com/lyraaaa/status/2097527368919470162
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on Google mapped the brain and nervous system of a fruit fly, and modders forced it to play Doom in c/technology@piefed.social · 10 Sep 2026
Now to see if it can play Skyrim.
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on Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
If they really wanted to avoid abuse, they would require a court order for any search carried out by law enforcement.
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on The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
There are a few ways to store excess energy generated during the day. Usually batteries are the obvious answer.
One of the great things about batteries is that the metal used in them is recyclable and can be repurposed to make new batteries. So, at some point, we’ll barely need to be mining the metals used in those.
Compare that to petroleum products which, if not for green energy, would always needs to be extracting more and more to be able to satisfy an increasing demand of energy.
TL/DR: You can read about it in detail here: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1416.pdf
According to PrivacyGuides, regarding this announcement:
According to Signal’s support article: