All AI-generated code should be Open Source

The author argues that AI-generated code should be Open Source because models were trained on Open Source code and Creative Commons-licensed Stack Overflow content without permission or attribution, and because purely AI-generated code is not human-authored and thus should not be copyrightable, citing the Monkey Selfie dispute and the U.S. Copyright Office. Noting that laws differ across jurisdictions, such as the UK granting limited protection to computer-generated works, the author calls for releasing AI-generated code under Open Source licenses or dedicating it to the public domain via CC0. The author adds that code produced with little human effort beyond prompting should definitely be Open Source.