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Copilot just suggests code.

• MadcapJake 5y ago
  If I suggest whole lines of dialogue to you, the screenwriter, did I write those lines or you? If you change names in those lines of dialogue to fit your story, do you now gain credit for writing those lines? Suggesting code is generating code
  • midev 5y ago
    > did I write those lines or you Neither. Someone else did, and published it. Copilot copied the dialog and suggested it. > If you change names in those lines of dialogue to fit your story, do you now gain credit for writing those lines? It depends. Talking generalities isn't productive or interesting. Can you give an example and we can discuss specifics? > Suggesting code is generating code This isn't even superficially true
• kroltan 5y ago
  And someone accepts it. Even if suggesting derivatives of licensed code is not a license infringement, then Copilot sure is a vector for mass license infringement by the people clicking "Accept suggestion". And those people are unable to know (without doing extensive investigation that completely nullifies the point of the tool) whether that suggestion is potentially a verbatim copy of some existing work in an incompatible license.