2026-10-28 01:35 UTC
Technically speaking, a cleanroom reverse-engineered program isn’t illegal (this is how IBM PC clones were allowed to exist), at least in the US.
On the other hand, since AI cannot hold a copyright, the prompters cannot sue if, say, Sony or Microsoft just take their code and sell it.
Most decompiled games need a copy of the original game for assets (graphics, textures, etc) since those wouldn’t be recreated via AI, and shipping with them would be copyright infringement.
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@jj4211@lemmy.world 2026-10-28 03:31
The critical thing in the IBM BIOS case is that the ABI surface was deemed too trivial to be worthy of copyright protection, and the implementation was credibly not cloned. When you get to the point of the interface presented to human, I wager there would be consensus that is substantiave enough content there. Also an actual decompile would not be “clean room”.
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@okamiueru@lemmy.world 2026-10-28 06:58
Requirement for “cleanroom” development" are very strict. You’d have to disregard anyone who could have had just the tiniest plausible chance of having seen the tiniest part of the code. Any LLM usage would invalidate the cleanroom premise.