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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by falcor84 on Thursday February 12, 2026 @12:05PM (#46991424)
If you pay for Copilot Business/Enterprise, they actually offer IP indemnification and support in court, if needed, which is more accountability than you would get from human contributors.

https://resources.github.com/learn/pathways/copilot/essentia...

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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by jayd16 on Thursday February 12, 2026 @12:19PM (#46991685)
That covers any random contribution claiming to be AI?
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by falcor84 on Thursday February 12, 2026 @04:40PM (#46995630)
Their docs say:

> If any suggestion made by GitHub Copilot is challenged as infringing on third-party intellectual property (IP) rights, our contractual terms are designed to shield you.

I'm not actually aware of a situation where this was needed, but I assume that MS might have some tools to check whether a given suggestion was, or is likely to have been, generated by Copilot, rather than some other AI.

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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by christoph-heiss on Thursday February 12, 2026 @12:13PM (#46991572)
I think that they felt the need to offer such a service says everything, basically admitting that LLMs just plagiarize and violate licenses.
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by blibble on Thursday February 12, 2026 @06:01PM (#46996511)
9 lines of code came close to costing Google $8.8 billion

how much use do you think these indemnification clauses will be if training ends up being ruled as not fair-use?

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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by falcor84 on Thursday February 12, 2026 @06:31PM (#46996794)
Are you concerned that this will bankrupt Microsoft?
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by tsimionescu on Thursday February 12, 2026 @07:01PM (#46997071)
I think they're afraid they will have to sue Microsoft to get them to abide by the promise to come to their defense in another suit.
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by blibble on Thursday February 12, 2026 @06:46PM (#46996960)
be nice, wouldn't it?

poetic justice for a company founded on the idea of not stealing software

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