cnma

> Nobody is really being hurt when a new tool makes it easier to copy little bits of code from the internet.

Of course people are hurt, namely the original creators who spent years of work and whose work is potentially laundered, depending on how good this IP grabbing AI will get.

If it gets really good, some smug and well connected loser (e.g. the type who posts pictures of himself with a microphone on GitHub) will click a button, steal other people's hard work and start a "new" project that supersedes the old one.

Nonsense. Above a certain level of creativity people do produce novel or exceptional things that are worthy of protection.

Because naked men are a shared concept Michelangelo's David is not protect-worthy?

I'm very worried that such opinions are up-voted so highly when Microsoft leeches open source code (but not its own ...).

People have no respect for other people's creations. Perhaps it makes them feel better because they haven't created anything difficult themselves.