> It’s not copyright violation to train ML on content. The training is not a copyright violation. That seems to be settled case law. Whether the verbatim copyi

> It’s not copyright violation to train ML on content. The training is not a copyright violation. That seems to be settled case law. Whether the verbatim copying as a result of that training is a copyright violation I think is less tested. Let’s flip the domains. Say we had an ML algorithm that could auto generate news stories and it at some point (not all the time) copied verbatim a Wall Street Journal article and posted it to a blog. Copyright violation? With copilot, we’re sometimes seeing “paragraphs” of source lines copying verbatim, so this analogy is not such a stretch. I think we need to think about how much our sharing culture in programming has tinted our view of the legality of this enterprise.