@topspin said in I, ChatGPT:
copyrighted code goes in, code "without" copyright (in the sense) comes out
In my limited understanding of copyright law that would work about as well as the defense against EULAs. To determine if there's copyright infringement, the courts will look at the works in question and decide if they are similar enough to constitute infringement. What tools were used to produce these works is entirely irrelevant to this question.
From my skimming of the court case linked above I got the impression that this is exactly what happened there and the reason the cases were dismissed: The plaintiffs could not point to any specific works of theirs that were being infringed, so there was nothing to compare.
What this means, and what should IMHO be obvious, is that it makes no sense to talk about AIs infringing copyrights, it's the publishers of any AI-generated works who risk infringement.