Adam’s thoughts about when to attribute credit for recipe ideas applies to code as well! It’s not always easy to determine who first came up with an idea, but we can all credit the person who introduced the idea to us.
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StackOverflow was built on the idea of sharing code, and it’s a great place to find code snippets. But it’s also a great place to find attribution for those snippets. If you find a code snippet on StackOverflow, you can usually find a link to the original source.
ChatGPT makes this even more complicated since the code produced by the model is a combination of all the code it’s been trained on. So who owns the code produced by ChatGPT? The model itself? The people who trained it? The people who wrote the code it was trained on?
Who (ethically) owns recipes? Am I stealing them? • A video about the ethics of copying recipes