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Re:GitHub accused of varying Copilot output to avoid copyrig... by z3t4 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @03:20PM (#36274053)
It can be explained by the normal curve. The bigger your audience is the weirder the outliers will be.
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Re:GitHub accused of varying Copilot output to avoid copyrig... by arp242 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @06:14PM (#36275731)
Pretty much, yeah. There's about 26.8 million developers in the world. Assuming 5 million read this story (not everyone speaks English) and 0.01% of people is a bit unhinged then you've got 50,000 unhinged people, and only about 0.006% of those 50,000 (or 0.00006% of total) need to be unhinged enough to actually shoot off an email.
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