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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by heavyset_go on Saturday November 05, 2022 @08:43PM (#33487520)
There are countless examples of people just letting Copilot's "autocomplete" run wild and it ends up reproducing many lines of code, often verbatim, and not just single lines of code.
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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by nopenopenopeno on Sunday November 06, 2022 @01:49AM (#33489541)
A lot of people seem to think changing the variable names makes it new code.
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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by dymk on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:32AM (#33490459)
The count is like 5
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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by wizzwizz4 on Sunday November 06, 2022 @04:54AM (#33490906)
Considering how easy it is to generate additional examples, I think it's higher than 5. Five big, popular blog posts, maybe; but there are way more than 5 examples just on Twitter.
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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by Kiro on Sunday November 06, 2022 @04:51AM (#33490884)
You need to bait Copilot really hard to make it output that. To the point where it would be much easier to locate and copy-paste the code directly from the source yourself. It doesn't happen accidentally and it's not how you normally use Copilot.
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