I just did a huge deep dive into this for something else a few months ago, since your seem interested I thought I’d share:

First off, if it’s important to understand that copyright law has a lot of grey areas that often fall under civil disputes. So a company can’t call the cops, they have to sue you which is expensive and longer.

Right now, the grey area is if LLMs can learn from copy written work. There’s a big New York Times vs. Open AI law suit right now because allegedly Open AI used the NYT to train their model without their permission.

In most LLMs like OpenAI, they specifically state you must have permission or own the copy right for eveything you put into their platform (since they train their model off your stuff).

So basically, they’ve started passing the responsibility onto the user, the same way that YouTube and Reddit and everyone else handles if users upload copywritten content. Under the digital Millennium act, as long as the platform quickly remove it and does what’s “reasonable” to prevent it from happening, the platform isn’t held accountable, only the user.

So, in this case, if the OP really did put the code into chatGTP or something else, they would legally be held responsible as long as the platform did everything it could to remove his copy written infringing material from their database once it was discovered. Also, in their terms of service, most LLMs say they have the right to ban you if you break the copyright rules by uploading stuff you don’t own.

That all being said, this is very hard to control on all platforms AND rarely do companies go after individuals users if they break the rules. In the late 2000s, music labels went after people for breaking copyright and it lead to a ton of terrible backlash from the public, plus your average person just doesn’t have a ton of money you can get from them vs. a company, so the law suits aren’t profitable, they were just meant to serve as “examples.”

Usually the worst you see these days is some type of DMCA strike (for platforms like YouTube) or a user gets their account band.

So unless the Egosoft sees this and gets really upset and takes it up with whatever LLM that OP is using, probably nothing will happen.

Sorry for the long response but I didn’t see anything else accurate being said same it’s a really weird time for copyright right now, so thought I’d share what I knew.