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If Microsoft is confident that Copilot is not a parrot, they should include their proprietary codebases in the training database.
by truffdog 5y ago
If Microsoft is confident that Copilot is not a parrot, they should include their proprietary codebases in the training database.
- BuildTheRobots 5y agoDoes anyone know which codebases got included? I get the impression copilot scraped github - but as it's an internal tool, did it only scrape public repos or has private repos also been slurped?
- xdennis 5y agoThere are torrents of leaked Windows source code. Someone with access to Microsoft Copilot could try to see if reproduces the code there.
- dleslie 5y agoIf they truly believe copilot does not produce derivative works, then there is no downside to indexing their own code in its entirety; it would probably improve copilot's behaviour. Well, Microsoft, show us you believe your own arguments!
- hnfong 5y agoA counter argument that Microsoft can use is: "The code we write at Microsoft is so bad that it will decrease the quality of the generated output". :)