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Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff by gampleman on Monday April 03, 2023 @07:42AM (#35421839)
From the MIT license:

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Does GPT spit out the copyright notice when it regurgitates my code?

Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff by Uvix on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:35AM (#35422443)
Is GPT spitting out “substantial portions” of your code?
Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff by WorldMaker on Monday April 03, 2023 @02:30PM (#35428998)
It might. The ethical dilemma here seems to be:

1) We don't know when/if GPT will. GPT in its current form can't seem to guarantee safety (either from "substantial" verbatim snippets or from complex "hallucinations" of random pachinko output).

2) GPT doesn't know when/if it has. GPT in its current form likely cannot know this. (In part, because it doesn't really "know" anything, that's too anthropological a word for what is still mostly just a casino full of pachinko machines.)

3) Define "substantial portions" in a way that a jury of your peers can understand it in a court of law.

4) Can you define "substantial portions" again, only this time in code as guide rails for something like GPT? "Substantial portions" is barely a human term designed for human lawyers and courts. There's a fascinating challenge here on quantifying it.