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Copilot is NOT SELLING coed other people wrote, it is simply acting as a curator to show you all the solutions people HAVE WRITTEN for free.
Copilot does NOT write entire programs, it's simply an assistant. And there is not much copyright you CAN apply to 3-4 lines of generally understandable code.
I've used Copilot and am actively paying for and I have not seen many cases where it's generating bad code. It's only there to remove boilerplate and common problems, not there to write entire applications.
Why are people getting so salty?
It made no sense for such a minor disease which I'm sure would have been dismissed as flu 60 years ago.
I don't know what caused this overreaction, sure for 30-40 days but this thing has devastated billions of lives, left millions jobless and ruined an entire generation.
It's sometimes necessary to have pandemics and diseases like this to control the population of society.
Europe practically had a renaissance after the black death.
screw you fig, thank you for enlightening me.