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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by lawl on Friday July 02, 2021 @08:42AM (#27710734)
Way better. It's susceptible to copyright trolling.

Put up repos with snippets for things people might commonly write. Preferably use javascript so you can easily "prove" it. Write a crawler that crawls and parses JS files to search for matching stuff in the AST. Now go full patent troll, eh, i mean copyright troll.

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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by handrous on Friday July 02, 2021 @12:32PM (#27713680)
1) Write a project heavily using Copilot (hell, automate it and write thousands of them, why not?)

2) AGPL all that code.

3) Search for large chunks of code very similar to yours, but written after yours, licensed more liberally than AGPL. Ideally in libraries used by major companies.

4) Point the offenders to your repos and offer a "convenient" paid dual-license to make the offenders' code legal for closed-source use, so they don't have to open source their entire product.

5) Profit?

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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by armatav on Friday July 02, 2021 @02:31PM (#27715057)
6) Arms race with someone who trained an obfuscation version that goes through your AGPL code and tweaks it to not be in violation.
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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by SSLy on Friday July 02, 2021 @06:40PM (#27717778)
I love living in cyberpunk already.
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