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Ask HN: Are prompts becoming the new IP?

by rishikeshs on 3/4/25, 7:30 PM with 3 comments

I saw an interesting forum post discussing the growing concern around prompt intellectual property. What are your thoughts?
  • by jarsin on 3/4/25, 7:57 PM

    What IP? The copyright office has ruled there is no copyright for prompts (instructions) or for the prompts output.

    Anything built by AI essentially has zero ip and can be copied and remixed without attribution.

    All source code output by AI is also incompatible with all the popular open source licenses such as the gpl. Because they all use copyright as the tool to enforce the license rules.

  • by ungreased0675 on 3/4/25, 10:18 PM

    Are there prompts that aren’t trivially easy to reverse engineer? Is there such a thing as a sophisticated and unique prompt style?