GitHub’s AI Copilot Might Get You Sued If You Use It

Re:GitHub’s AI Copilot Might Get You Sued If You Use It by Zababa on Friday July 09, 2021 @10:43AM (#27784181)

> Github's study predates any negative press, so that would not have be the reason for them to manipulate the study.

I seriously doubt that no one raised the concerns that are raised today during the development of Copilot.

> And the examples that are making the rounds combine two aspects a) prompt-engineering b) famous code samples. That's hardly representative of normal use.

That's true, however the way they advertise Copilot is to prompt it with comments, which might push it to regurgitate code more often.

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Re:GitHub’s AI Copilot Might Get You Sued If You Use It by Houshalter on Friday July 09, 2021 @05:13PM (#27788586)

>I seriously doubt that no one raised the concerns that are raised today during the development of Copilot.

I would be shocked if they did. The common wisdom in the ML community is that training data is fair use. GPT has been operating for 2-3 years now with no legal issues, and this is just a different fine tune of GPT3.

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