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Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff by EarlKing on Monday April 03, 2023 @12:19PM (#35426488)
...except you don't need an infinite number of monkeys. It has been trained to produce protected expressions by virtue of being trained on protected expressions. The probability of it producing a protected expression at some point is 1.
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Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff by theonlybutlet on Monday April 03, 2023 @02:10PM (#35428659)
The same truth holds for you or me writing up that code.
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Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff by EarlKing on Monday April 03, 2023 @05:09PM (#35431325)
No it doesn't. My mind contains information derived from expressions I've read which I can rearrange into novel expressions. I don't regurgitate protected expressions verbatim. Co-Pilot does.
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Re:Saying Goodbye to GitHub – Ersei 'N Stuff by theonlybutlet on Monday April 03, 2023 @06:32PM (#35432246)
That's exactly what co-pilot does, ask it to rearrange it if what it comes up with is the same. That's what code plagiarism checkers are for.
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