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No, that's not how it works. "[...] the vast majority of the code that it suggests is uniquely generated and has never been seen before. We found that about 0.
by Kiro 5y ago
No, that's not how it works.
"[...] the vast majority of the code that it suggests is uniquely generated and has never been seen before. We found that about 0.1% of the time, the suggestion may contain some snippets that are verbatim from the training set"
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- ipsum2 5y agoSo you're gambling on whether that the code that was generated or copied.
- visarga 5y agouse a bloom filter to skip/regenerate that 0.1%
- lostmsu 5y agoNo you aren't. Courts will consider it fair use.
- mytherin 5y agoHow are you going to prove it was the AI that generated the GPL licensed function ad verbatim from another project, rather than you just opening that project and copying the function yourself?
- lostmsu 5y agoI will not. Courts will simply consider a single function not to be substantive enough piece of work to constitute unfair use.
- not2b 5y agoIf that's the case (only 0.1%), the developers must have done something that differs from other openai experiments that suggest code sequences that I recall seeing, where significant chunks of code from Stack Overflow or similar sites were appearing in answers.