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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by nl on Sunday November 06, 2022 @12:48AM (#33489090)
> the shape of the code and techniques it uses were familiar to me from elsewhere.

Isn't this exactly what you'd expect an AI coder to do?

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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by dleslie on Sunday November 06, 2022 @12:51AM (#33489113)
That's precisely the problem with it. AI, as it is, can be considered a lossy compression technique with multiple document recovery, convolution and interpolation ability.
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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by nl on Monday November 07, 2022 @06:13PM (#33513865)
Can't humans be considered a lossy compression technique with multiple document recovery, convolution and interpolation ability?

What is the specific difference?

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