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Re:GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion by philipwhiuk on Monday October 17, 2022 @08:21PM (#33241418)
It regenerates the comments from the Quake 2 fast inverse square root function.
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Re:GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion by mdswanson on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @12:24AM (#33242960)
Just did a quick github.com search on that function (with comments) and found around 131 matches. Many without a license. So yes, I believe that it would produce those comments...because it's seen humans repurpose and reuse that code without attribution or license many times.

Definitely an issue...but not as simple as copy and paste.

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