Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright
by j4yav on Monday July 05, 2021 @03:55PM
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Since that article was written people have shown it will generate quite long coherent sections. It will even generate someone’s private about me page: https://twitter.com/kylpeacock/status/1410749018183933952?s=...
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Bullshit.
That not an existing aboutme page. You can go to davidcelis' website and verify that it's completely different.
Copilot just picked a random person and linked to their social media accounts. You can search any large quote within that about me on Google and not find a match, it is unique.
The only two examples of generating large sections of copyrighted work are the quake floating point hack and the zen of python. Both those examples are commonly known and copied and talked about, to the point that they have wikipedia pages.
But that about me page is the very definition of boilerplate text, so really it only gives weight to the argument that it's not producing original work.
Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright
by dmurray on Monday July 05, 2021 @05:54PM
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You got downvoted, but I kind of like this argument. There are a million "about me" pages, but Copilot did a good job of picking one for "generic software engineer". If it could just have changed a word or two to a synonym, it would be great.
Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright
by stickfigure on Monday July 05, 2021 @08:06PM
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That page was so generic that I could fully believe it was originally written by a GPT bot.