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Re:GitHub’s AI Copilot Might Get You Sued If You Use It by onli on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:07AM (#27784451)
You are making it sound as if the system only copies full functions verbatim, but that's not the case. See https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/research-recitatio... (as linked in a different comment thread here).

And btw, clowns take? That's no way to enter into a productive discussion.

> Nobody cares particularly if you feed data into an algorithm of your choice. I can feed data into a hash algorithm all day and that won't come back to bite me.

I showed examples to the contrary in my other comment.

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Re:GitHub’s AI Copilot Might Get You Sued If You Use It by louthy on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:16AM (#27784538)
> You are making it sound as if the system only copies full functions verbatim

It doesn't only do that, but it does do that [1]. And that is the issue. It doesn't matter if it only does this 1% of the time, it's enough to be high risk.

[1] https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309

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