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Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright by luqtas on Thursday July 11, 2024 @08:00AM (#40935724)
> so the problem starts here; does the piece of code copilot emits, if written by yourself also would be infringing ?

why everyone on discussions tries to bring "if a human made it"? a generative AI operates way faster than anyone ever existed and ever will. and having dozen/hundreds/thousands humans substituted by a machine that makes money for some for-profit greed company is really fair?

for sure legal battles on people copying code from permissive licenses should be developed further but it's a different economy

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Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright by bluesign on Thursday July 11, 2024 @09:57AM (#40936892)
because discussion is around 'legal' and laws only apply to humans. On ethical side of the discussion, I tend to agree with you. But it is also complicated subject; 'fair' in general is complicated, all this, GPL/AGPL stuff born out of this subject. Hosting GPL code as SaaS is legal but not 'fair' for example.
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