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Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright by zarzavat on Friday July 12, 2024 @01:13AM (#40942862)
Have you used Copilot? It is generally not creating code similar to GPL code, it is creating code similar to the surrounding context file.

Transformers predict the most likely next token, the most likely next token is usually related to the surrounding context.

So yes it can create code similar to GPL code but it can only do that consistently when the GPL code is included in the context. So don’t do that.

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