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I wonder when we'll hear about the first big hack that gets traced back to production code pushed live after CoPilot "suggested" eval(base64decode({webshell}))
I want my code to be used the way people treated text in the old days. There's texts that have been re-written, added to and edited by thousands of people over the centuries and yet they don't come with thousands of pages of attribution notices because why would they?
in countries where there is no fair use (most of the world outside the US) it seems quite likely copilot is willful, commercial scale copyright infringement
>"Tim Davis gave numerous examples of large chunks of his code being copied verbatim by Copilot, including when he prompted Copilot with the comment / sparse matrix transpose in the style of Tim Davis /."
Copilot regurgitates code and blatantly violates licenses, not even sure what there is to argue about. Not only does it seem straight up illegal and sideline open source communities, I think the next logical step of this is that people who want to avoid having their work vacuumed up and their rights violated simply to move to proprietary software, which would be a huge disaster for open source.
> Microsoft characterizes the output of Copilot as a series of code "suggestions". Microsoft "does not claim any rights" in these suggestions. But neither does Microsoft make any guarantees about the correctness, security, or extenuating intellectual-property entanglements of the code so produced. Once you accept a Copilot suggestion, all that becomes your problem: > "You are responsible…
Doesn't really explain how co-pilot is stealing your community. I've used co-pilot and it works great until you are past boilerplate than it falls apart.
Reminds me of people who defend AI art with "you can tell it apart from real art" yeah no, at the rate we're moving you won't be able to tell at all in a year or two.