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Re:Is GitHub Copilot a blessing, or a curse? by ivanbakel on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @07:48AM (#27892579)
As the other commenter pointed out, Copilot has ingested all the public code on GitHub, including GPL code.

And as this famous example[0] shows, the GAN is able to reproduce what is unquestionably copyrighted material from those repos.

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

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