Copilot for "vibecoding" and code licenses.

[DuckersMcQuack]

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I've been using copilot for months now to finally make all the programs i've been wanting to make, but there's one big stoppgap.

As i've asked in a good few places on opinions, and as long text can easily blow a mental fuse for me, i want to ask the community.

As some i have spoken to see an "all vibecoded code" as "grey area", because the hallucinating computer can't tell whether a code it's trained on has been of copyrighted code or not. Nor do i know if a llm i'm using, either a bigger model i rent, or a local i host has been trained on copyrighted work.

So i want to ask, can a fully vibecoded, as in the copilot generates and writes the code, but i, the user, orchestrate and decide how it's implemented. Would that code strictly ONLY be used under the MIT license? Or would it also be appliable under GPL V3 provided i only tell it to be gpl3 compliant, and implement code/tools from other GPL V3 compliant git repos?

Or is this still a grey topic until "the world" has decided what "slop coded" would go under, and GPL V4 with updated can and can't has been updated for slop gen usage?

As i really want to share the code i've made so far, but the problem is the licenses, even if a few of my programs via claude for instance has been structured to include all licenses in it's own subdir, as well as subdirs with documentation on the code itself, what was borrowed from another program, and how code was converted if original was C++ to python for instance.

Or would the code be GPL3 compliant only if the user went over the code to confirm what it does, and know exactly what it executes properly before submitting, even if copilot wrote readme's and code's purpose?

[Om-singh-ui]

AI-generated (“vibecoded”) code does not have a special default license.
What matters is what you publish and what it contains, not how it was written.

You can release AI-generated code under MIT, GPLv3, or any license you choose.
If the code includes or derives from GPL code → GPL obligations apply (copyleft, source disclosure).
AI tools don’t automatically make code MIT-licensed.
You (the maintainer) are responsible for reviewing, understanding, and ensuring license compatibility.
“Vibecoding” vs manual coding has no legal distinction today.

Safe practice: treat AI output like a third-party contribution → review, verify, document, then license.