But where do chatbots fit into this? Cribbing from your neighbor in an exam? Watching TV?

Of course it can stop, once legislation catches up and forbids IP theft using a thinly disguised probabilistic and compressed database of other people's code.

> a thinly disguised probabilistic and compressed database of other people's code

Speaking as a software engineer, I feel seen.

You really think those laws are coming? That the US and Chinese governments will force AI companies to put the genie back in the bottle?

I think you're going to be very disappointed.