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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by rorykoehler on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:20PM (#27716389)
It just seems bizarre that this wasn’t flagged internally at Microsoft. They have tons of compliance staff.
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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by mustacheemperor on Friday July 02, 2021 @05:35PM (#27717213)
Maybe we’ll even get a sneak peak at Windows 11’s source code. Time to start writing a Win32 API wrapper and see what the robot comes up with!
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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by snicker7 on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:35PM (#27716546)
That's because Microaoft doesn't dare use this for production code (presumably).

They are 100% okay with letting their competitors get into legal hot water.

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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by lumost on Friday July 02, 2021 @09:31PM (#27718623)
isn't it copilot's liability for "distributing" the copyrighted code?
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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by rorykoehler on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:39PM (#27716581)
It’s surely a bit of a liability grey area?
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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by ngcazz on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:37PM (#27716563)
Could bet they baked in the legal fees and are taking a calculated risk
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