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This take is weird, because none of the companies that do inference claim ownership of the generated content in their contracts for one, and because anyone can download open source models and generate code without entering into any ToS, for two.
If you want a fun exercise, take the comments in this thread and replace the word AI with "Stack Overflow"
Devs getting some of their code from a website is not new, even if it's via API