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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.