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What's hilarious about auto-generating the GPL license is that it's provable Copilot is trained on GPL code, but it's essentially impossible to tell which code
by maxbendick 5y ago
What's hilarious about auto-generating the GPL license is that it's provable Copilot is trained on GPL code, but it's essentially impossible to tell which code it came from. Any legal battle will be strange... Is it enough for Copilot to not regurgitate GPL licensed code exactly? Is it enough for Copilot to create a slightly modified version?
Laughably, as soon as slight variation is added, there is so much code in the world that it'll be impossible to prove wrongdoing for HTML or JavaScript synthesis. A model trained on all permissively licensed code on GitHub looks a lot like your own GPL code? Are you sure your code is so unique?
Microsoft of course will implement compliance standards as necessary (they genuinely do not want to break the law), but what does this mean for smaller companies and individuals training models?