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Re:I figured out how to get GitHub Copilot to run in the ter... by LtWorf on Thursday September 15, 2022 @06:15AM (#32849639)
Are there any companies forbidding developers to use it?

If that was my role I'd totally forbid it, precisely for the reasons you indicated.

If a developer is paying on his own for it to work, who would have the legal responsibility in the end? The developer personally? Another good reason to stay away from it.

Re:I figured out how to get GitHub Copilot to run in the ter... by artdigital on Thursday September 15, 2022 @06:49AM (#32849852)
Our company is forbidding it too, for exactly the legal reasons parent posted
Re:I figured out how to get GitHub Copilot to run in the ter... by Nanana909 on Thursday September 15, 2022 @01:37PM (#32855626)
I see the concern here from a level perspective so I’d probably forbid it too just to be safe.

That being said…I think this line of thinking is probably mostly a nothing-burger at this point. My experience is that anything sufficiently complicated that Copilot outputs is likely to be somewhat wrong.

I’ve only really found it to be (quite) useful for speeding up small things like if statements, switches/matching, short documentation etc, which I don’t think you can copyright anyways. I wonder to what degree we can expect customization options in the future to forbid any complex code from being generated, or to constrain Copilot to helping with specific whitelisted

Perhaps, extending that last thought, there’s an ideological argument to be made that code that is so simple an AI can generate it isn’t worthy of being protected under copyright law anyways. I don’t know.