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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by skybrian on Friday July 02, 2021 @07:00PM (#27717912)
It seems like the risk is somewhat exaggerated because even when people get bad autocomplete results, they mostly won’t use them.
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Re:Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments by Cyberdog on Friday July 02, 2021 @07:05PM (#27717949)
That's optimistic. The people who would rely heavily on this sort of thing are going to be the worst at detecting what a "bad autocomplete result" would look like. But even if you are capable of judging that you've got a good one, it still doesn't inform you of the obvious potential licensing issues with any bit of code.

Surely somebody working on this project foresaw this problem…

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