Copilot sells code other people wrote

Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by rockbruno on Thursday June 23, 2022 @07:46AM (#31847720)

My problem with this conversation is how we can have a 200 comment thread without anyone providing any kind of proof to these claims. Is there any instance of this bot printing an actual copyrighted algorithm instead of a mundane uncopyrighteable piece of logic?

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by sascha_sl on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:22AM (#31848016)

One of the earliest examples was Copilot printing Quake's fast inverse square root verbatim, including swearing in a comment.

Quake's source code is GPL.

There are plenty more if you're willing to look.

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by dgb23 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:05AM (#31847877)

There are examples of it providing literal copies of code without attribution etc.

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by Xunjin on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:02AM (#31847858)

The famous “burden of proof” fallacy. In the end, I'm eager to anyone who can prove it, sue them and see the results from it.

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