He really thinks the tools you use do not shape and limit your results and yourself. I’d take a book carefully crafted in LaTeX anytime over slop pasted from Copilot into Word. What he’s not even seeing is that AI is, above all, a source of input. No other tool, not the best LaTeX editor, takes care of my writing. AI is totally different. It is the author of Linus’ code, it is his ghostwriter. He did not write it. He should not claim authorship. If he’s not the author, he can’t legally release it as Free software under a GNU license.
He really thinks the tools you use do not shape and limit your results and yourself. I’d take a book carefully crafted in LaTeX anytime over slop pasted from Copilot into Word. What he’s not even seeing is that AI is, above all, a source of input. No other tool, not the best LaTeX editor, takes care of my writing. AI is totally different. It is the author of Linus’ code, it is his ghostwriter. He did not write it. He should not claim authorship. If he’s not the author, he can’t legally release it as Free software under a GNU license.
That’s not how this works. If he edits that code to his specifications, even using an llm, he’s the author.
This is how it works everywhere else and this is how it will work in this situation.
All right. And if I cp a jpg file, I’m a photographer. cp is my creative tool.
That’s a dishonest example. The output of an LLM is never a copy of someone else’s work. That’s not how it works.
If you edit a photograph, then yes, it is your work, not as a photographer, but still your work. Even though you didn’t edit the pixels one by one.
It’s literally copying everyone’s work