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Automatic refactoring could be useful for avoiding a lot of dumb legal disputes. I say dumb because I am, perhaps chauvinistically, assuming that no brilliant
by Jeff_Brown 5y ago
Automatic refactoring could be useful for avoiding a lot of dumb legal disputes.
I say dumb because I am, perhaps chauvinistically, assuming that no brilliant algorithmic insights will be transferred via the AI copilot, only work that might have been conceptually hard to a beginner but feels routine to a day laborer.
Then again that assumption suggests there'd be nothing to sue over.
- Gh0stRAT 5y agoTrue, but that definitely wouldn't stop Oracle from suing over it anyway. (See the rangeCheck chapter of Oracle v Google [0]) Also, Oracle v Google opens the possibility of a fair-use defense in the event that Copilot does regurgitate a small snippet of code. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11722514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11722514