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Re:Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code? by merpnderp on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:48AM (#31849079)
Except Google isn’t creating anything new, Copilot is. I’ve had it kick out some very interesting short stories based on Sherlock Holmes, so if I published those would they infringe?
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Re:Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code? by jhugo on Thursday June 23, 2022 @10:11AM (#31849384)
You have no idea where they came from, or whether they are as new as you assume. Maybe they'd infringe, maybe they wouldn't!
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Re:Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code? by merpnderp on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:15PM (#31854590)
Google returned nothing which contained exact matches of some of the more interesting dialogue. It would be a serious find - worthy of a paper - to disprove that GPT-3 is generating novel text/code.
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Re:Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code? by jhugo on Thursday June 23, 2022 @11:27PM (#31857466)
It's easy to prove that it sometimes regurgitates text verbatim — just play with it for a while. Having certainty that any given span of text/code is novel is extraordinarily difficult.
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Re:Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code? by InvertedRhodium on Friday June 24, 2022 @01:52AM (#31858231)
Where does human creativity come from?
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