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She cites githubs smallest excerpt claim for her reasoning when we already know that the tool happily reproduces entire functions with comments verbatim. Also
by josefx 5y ago
She cites githubs smallest excerpt claim for her reasoning when we already know that the tool happily reproduces entire functions with comments verbatim.
Also her claims about machine generated code have a really funny interaction with the cp command. Clearly cp MicrosoftWindows11Source.zip FreeWindows.zip is not a creative process, cp is a command executed by a machine hence the contents of FreeWindows.zip are now entirely public domain. Man were was she when people where sued over creating entire libraries of public domain movies using BitTorrent?
- ramraj07 5y agoJust like you accuse her of being out of date with recent findings, y'all seem conveniently out of date with githubs assurance that they will be adding checks to not regurgitate full chunks of code. So what exactly is your point then?
- josefx 5y agoTheir own paper notes that they would at most inform you of the source. If they can even detect it, as their detection isn't perfect either[1]. [1]https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/research-recitation https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/research-recitatio...