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Re:Copilot under fire as dev claims it emits 'large chunks o... by jimbokun on Thursday October 20, 2022 @08:47AM (#33273824)
There are a lot of existing legal precedents about what constitutes fair use vs infringement. This isn’t a new question.
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Re:Copilot under fire as dev claims it emits 'large chunks o... by chii on Thursday October 20, 2022 @09:57AM (#33274769)
https://www.alrc.gov.au/publication/copyright-and-the-digita...

so if your work is transformative, it can be exempt as fair use. But i'm not sure what degree counts as transformative - i do think that training an AI model with millions of repos worth of code is transformative.

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