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Re:GitHub Copilot by Kiro on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @12:43PM (#27678389)
No, that's not how it works.

"[...] the vast majority of the code that it suggests is uniquely generated and has never been seen before. We found that about 0.1% of the time, the suggestion may contain some snippets that are verbatim from the training set"

https://copilot.github.com/#faqs

Re:GitHub Copilot by not2b on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @03:47PM (#27680824)
If that's the case (only 0.1%), the developers must have done something that differs from other openai experiments that suggest code sequences that I recall seeing, where significant chunks of code from Stack Overflow or similar sites were appearing in answers.
Re:GitHub Copilot by ipsum2 on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @02:57PM (#27680205)
So you're gambling on whether that the code that was generated or copied.
Re:GitHub Copilot by lostmsu on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @12:57AM (#27685028)
No you aren't. Courts will consider it fair use.
Re:GitHub Copilot by mytherin on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @04:49PM (#27693293)
How are you going to prove it was the AI that generated the GPL licensed function ad verbatim from another project, rather than you just opening that project and copying the function yourself?
Re:GitHub Copilot by lostmsu on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @11:54PM (#27696119)
I will not. Courts will simply consider a single function not to be substantive enough piece of work to constitute unfair use.
Re:GitHub Copilot by visarga on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @03:51PM (#27680875)
use a bloom filter to skip/regenerate that 0.1%