steven king is just a very complex program, being executed in the brain. There's no way to "look inside" the black box of steven king, and you can make the argument that there's no way to look inside the blackbox of copilot. Therefore, you judge both by the outward actions using the same set of rules.

Building something we can't introspect isn't the same as building something intelligent.

Anyone who thinks Copilot is writing code with any comparable degree of novelty to Stephen King's prose clearly hasn't actually tried Copilot.

> Therefore, you judge both by the outward actions using the same set of rules.

No, you don't. You don't do that for kids, not for animals, not for corporations, not for.... . We don't even do that for patents vs copyright vs ....