My first reaction was "git already has an easy to use CLI!" But reading a bit more of the post I definitely see how many things I don't think about anymore aren't as intuitive to a newcomer. And hats off to this student for making themselves a tool. (Probably ended up learning a lot about git in the process too.)
This is not really how copyright works.
> an AI views it, and is inspired by it,
This is a misleading anthropomorphization of how AI works.