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Without using Copilot, I can search the Internet for help, find some source available code, take it verbatim and place it in my project. For most licenses, this
by dundarious 5y ago
Without using Copilot, I can search the Internet for help, find some source available code, take it verbatim and place it in my project. For most licenses, this is a violation if I ever externally ship a product from this code, and for some licenses, it is even a violation if I only expose it as a service over the Internet. A succinct way to rephrase this might be "theft".
Using Copilot, I can do the same (GitHub acknowledge that according to their testing, verbatim reproduction happens ~1/1000 times) and not even realize it. How am I as an end-user of Copilot supposed to vet its output to protect myself from unintentional but very real theft?