I don't think it's quite at trillions to zero, but I do think the numbers are way, way out of balance so far. I'm still at the point where, if AI disappeared tomorrow, I would be, at worst, mildly inconvenienced.

Its also worth noting that if you can create a business with an LLM, so can everyone else.

One possibility may be that we normalize making bigger, more complex things.

In pre-LLM days, if I whipped up an application in something like 8 hours, it would be a pretty safe assumption that someone else could easily copy it. If it took me more like 40 hours, I still have no serious moat, but fewer people would bother spending 40 hours to copy an existing application. If it took me 100 hours, or 200 hours, fewer and fewer people would bother trying to copy it.

Now, with LLMs... what still takes 40+ hours to build?

Fair; that was an example instance. People interested in “Free software” rather than “open source” seem to often favor the GPL, though other licensing options also count as “free software”.

But in any case, the question really refers to, can the LLM-generated software be copyrighted? If not, it can’t be put under any particular license.

I’ve seen different opinions. Can LLM-generated software be licensed under the GPL?