AI and ownership

Today, I saw developers online arguing about which LLMs should be allowed to use their open source contributions.

I also saw developers online arguing about vibecoders ‘stealing’ their code for their own vibecoded works.

One crowd trying to restrict AI from passing their work around without attribution…

The other claiming code as their own just because they’re the ones who clicked ‘generate’.

If you like generating code from the ingested works of others, can you hate when people people generate code ingested from yours?

If you didn’t write that piece of code, can you claim it as your writing?