Ask HN: Why do devs feel CoPilot has stolen code but DALL-E is praised for art?

Re:Ask HN: Why do devs feel CoPilot has stolen code but DALL... by ramesh31 on Friday June 24, 2022 @09:06PM (#31871478)

Code is shared with explicit licensing. Art exists in a more vague space, where the line between stealing and influence is subjective.

If your code is released with no license, it should be fair to assume free use. But if it is licensed, tools like Copilot should be forced to respect that.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do devs feel CoPilot has stolen code but DALL... by shakna on Saturday June 25, 2022 @02:40AM (#31873096)

> If your code is released with no license, it should be fair to assume free use.

Legally? The opposite is true. Source-available is not open source, and is emphatically not public domain.

There's a reason that StackOverflow and all the other code bins have legal agreements that you are notified of when using them.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do devs feel CoPilot has stolen code but DALL... by SomeHacker44 on Friday June 24, 2022 @10:36PM (#31871967)

If code is released with no license, the correct assumption is you should not do anything with it, in my opinion.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do devs feel CoPilot has stolen code but DALL... by grassmudhorse on Saturday June 25, 2022 @05:11AM (#31873693)

Are you allowed to look at it?

Yes.

Are you allowed to remember it?

Yes.

Are you allowed to use similar patterns / naming conventions / algorithms when your are trying to solve your own unique problems?

…I hope so, or you won’t be much value to your employer.

That’s all an AI does. Same thing as you, it’s just more efficient (in some ways).

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