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Re:We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot by varajelle on Thursday November 03, 2022 @07:00PM (#33459161)
I take your code and I compress it in a tar.gz file. Il call that file "the model". Then I ask an algorithm (Gzip) to infer some code using "the model". The algorithm (gzip) just learned how to code by reading your code. It just happened to have it memorized in its model.
Re:We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot by Aeolun on Thursday November 03, 2022 @08:47PM (#33460204)
Yeah, and that’s completely fine.

I’ve seen this point made before, but it assumes you use the entire input as output, which is silly.

Re:We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot by varajelle on Friday November 04, 2022 @02:44AM (#33462977)
Oh no, I'm not using the entire input, just a few functions of interest. And not the copyright headers of course.