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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by summerlight on Friday July 02, 2021 @05:31PM (#27717170)
Google (and most of other big techs I guess?) also explicitly prohibit employees from use of stack overflow code snippets.
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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by Noumenon72 on Friday July 02, 2021 @05:52PM (#27717387)
I tried Googling this and couldn't find it. I also don't want to believe it because it seems like the world suddenly turned into an apocalyptic hellscape with no place for developers like me. Do you have a source?
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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by summerlight on Saturday July 03, 2021 @03:23PM (#27724064)
First, I work at Google and its onboard training explicitly mentions Stack Overflow as a forbidden example due to CC-BY-SA license (SA is the problematic part). The following link is the official reference.

https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/licenses/#restrict...

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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by xen0 on Saturday July 03, 2021 @03:59AM (#27720077)
I work at Google.

SO definitely comes up during copyright/IP training.

The basic idea is 'reading SO answers to learn how to solve a problem is fine, copying/transcribing the code is not'.

Google is quite paranoid re. copyright and licenses.

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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by jhugo on Saturday July 03, 2021 @12:15AM (#27719305)
I don't have a source to link, but I've also been told this by someone who works at Google. Is copy-pasting stuff verbatim from SO really that much of a thing? I use SO plenty, but have never considered taking anything verbatim.
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