Yes this is a concern, but I'm not sure if the AI is actually able to "generate" a non-trivial piece of code. If you tell it to generate "a function for calcul

Yes this is a concern, but I'm not sure if the AI is actually able to "generate" a non-trivial piece of code. If you tell it to generate "a function for calculating the barycentric coordinates of a ray-triangle intersection", you might get a working implementation of a popular algorithm, adapted to your language and existing class/function/variable names. But if you tell it to generate "a smartphone operating system", it probably won't work...and if it does, it would most likely use giant chunks of Android's codebase. And if that's true, it means that copilot isn't really generating anything. It's just a (high-tech) search engine that knows how to adapt the code it finds to fit your codebase. That's still a really cool technology and worth exploring, but it doesn't do enough to justify ignoring software licenses.