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Corporations even before AI have sued each other, precisely on the premise that "your code looks like ours. We think you stole it" and then have a petty fight in court because their lawyers couldn't hash out a settlement.
Now with so-called AI washing, it's only going to get worse, because LLM generated code doesn't have to be 100% identical to be considered a derivative copy of the original. It all goes back to the central question: did this copy come from this original work?
The corporate IP lawyers will be making bank off of the ambiguity.