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I'm not a copyright expert but I wonder about an implication of two of this author's points: - Reading and remembering-about (like reading a book yourself) thi
by aeturnum 5y ago
I'm not a copyright expert but I wonder about an implication of two of this author's points:
- Reading and remembering-about (like reading a book yourself) things does not infringe on copyright.
- Copyright does not apply to the output of mechanistic code generation (as opposed to the human-written code that generates the code).
So where does that leave the quake snippet (setting aside its own release as open source)? Assuming this technical description is correct, Copilot does not contain the code, just the correct weights to contextually reproduce it perfectly. Copyright does not apply to the chunk that Copilot produces, so does the code simply exist as Copilot created it without license? If that is correct, what are the limits? Could I train a ML algorithm to reproduce binaries from context and, if those produced binaries happen to be identical to other copyrighted products, then it's fine?
- monetus 5y agoI like this train of thought.
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