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Re:Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot by tyingq on Monday July 12, 2021 @01:07PM (#27812512)
It also isn't giving you any information on the source(s) of the generated code. Which might help determine how much to trust it, whether it could have licensing issues, etc.
Re:Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot by visarga on Monday July 12, 2021 @02:24PM (#27813396)
It's probably the only way it would work - to show top matching snippets from training data on request, with links to the source and ideally licensing information, if it can be gleaned automatically. This would also clearly show how much it is copying verbatim and what exactly is its contribution.

The funny part will be when all the human programmers who steal code will get doxed as a side effect. It shine a light on lots of skeletons in the closet.