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> With effort, github could have linked snippets to the files they came from, and used a mostly-automatic process to identify the license and copyright holder o
by Sebb767 5y ago
> With effort, github could have linked snippets to the files they came from, and used a mostly-automatic process to identify the license and copyright holder of every quoted snippet.
Actually, they should not be able to, as the whole point is that CoPilot does not just paste code, but instead understands it and applies knowledge, not finished snippets.
The fact that it does paste snippets is the problem, not the authorship of the snippets, as these simply should not exist.
- klyrs 5y agoOn one hand, there's a whole field of study on explicable AI and I'm unconvinced that this cannot be baked into that automatic reasoning process. On the other hand, a wholly independent system to search the training set based on AST matching and text similarity could solve this problem in the majority of cases.