The big difference between people reading code and LLMs reading code is that people have legal liability and LLMs do not. You can't sue an LLM for copyright infringement, and it's almost impossible for users to tell when it happens.
BTW in 2023 I watched ChatGPT spit out hundreds of lines of F# verbatim from my own GitHub. A lot of people had this experience with GitHub Copilot. "98.7% unique" is still a lot of infringement.
> people have legal liability and LLMs do not. You can't sue an LLM for copyright infringement
That's not relevant, because you can still sue the person using the LLM and publishing the repository. Legal liability is completely unchanged.
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You can sue the company making the LLM, which is what many have done.