The reason why 'reverse engineering' has gotten so good is because what we're actually seeing is fully automated luxury plagiarism
It doesn’t matter. It’s likely had access to the knowledge of somebody who worked on that source code.
I have worked at companies that have done clean-room implementations. I was not permitted to look at their source or interact with those teams, because I had been exposed to the source of what they were re-implementing in a prior job.
As a human with a mushy brain I was never going to remember the source, but the fact I had been proximate to it was enough to lock me out. You have no idea what the LLM trained on, so you can’t prove a LLM derived clone is a “clean-room” implementation.
Wouldn't the burden of proof here be on Adobe if they wanted to make such an argument?
And I don't think that is publicly known at the current time. (If anyone has any tangible info on this, the please let me know...)