Re:GitHub Copilot and open source laundering
by thruuavay on Thursday June 23, 2022 @11:31AM
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Another approach is to write a program, "bugify", that deliberately inserts bugs into software. Then, create many users and repositories. This would cause the dataset's value drop even lower than it currently is (the value is already low because bugs are everywhere and developers who use Copilot are even more careless than ones who type it all; it's basically a form of regurgitate-and-paste).
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Re:GitHub Copilot and open source laundering
by jhoelzel on Thursday June 23, 2022 @11:36AM
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I wonder how many forks and github users you would habe to emulate to actually impress CoPilot and if they have a scoring system for the commited code.
I imagine that code in the nginx repository is much higher rated then my personal code that I have open sourced.
In psychology reliability and retest quality are important factors so I hope they are for something like this too.