GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright

Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright by freshhawk on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:31PM (#27755666)

Yeah ... that was my point. What copilot does underneath the indirection is steal GPL code and derive "new" stuff from it in a way that launders the licenses.

We know what it's doing, it's doing very well understood statistical inference techniques to derive outputs.

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Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright by freshhawk on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:32PM (#27755680)

Also, it's trivially easy to teach a real neural network to output a specific binary stream in response to a specific input. My OS AI could use the exact same technology as Copilot, I'd just train it very specifically.

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