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I though a while if i should answer to it. And this is so wrong, and dangerous, that i decided to do.
First: Such licensing questions are part of my day to day Job. I will explain it to you like i explain it to first semester students:
A LICENSE defines the terms under which a copyrighted work can be used, distributed and so on. It does not matter what the work is. A few relevant examples:
So, this brings us back to our topic:
There is no difference between sourcecode, music, paintings or writings for the purpose of licensing.
So, as courts established, AI CAN NOT BE CREATIVE and ALWAYS based on other works. Therefore any AI generated Work is in itself are not protected by copyright.
So, EVERY piece of code that is AI generated is free to go for any purpose, it does not fucking matter if there is a GPL 3.0 header in the file. AI Generated == Public domain.
But: Projects use viral copyleft licenses for a reason. A company could just take the AI generated code, implement it, and if somebody has a problem with it an just shrug "It's AI generated, it's public domain".