> I've seen a lot of people ragging on Copilot for "copy+pasting" code - does anyone have links to cases where it has done this without the user intentionally t

> I've seen a lot of people ragging on Copilot for "copy+pasting" code - does anyone have links to cases where it has done this without the user intentionally trying to generate a specific (extremely famous) code snippet? It's not important that the examples are really specific, the issue is that it does happens. This tool has the potential to infringe copyright (sure it does seems legal at some place, doesn't make it more right though). Look at how EA reversed engineered the Genesis in the past [1]. They had 2 teams, one that did the reversing, and another that did the implementation. That made it safe to say that no infringing code was going through. Plenty of emulators developers try to avoid source code leaks for similar reason. Co-Pilot can't do that. The fact that the copyright status of the code is hard to determine, doesn't means it's not copyrighted code nonetheless. Personally I got nothing against this kind of technology, but I do have a pretty big issue with how it learn. Once people published their code on Github, they didn't know it could have been used to do machine learning and it's bad that it is. If Github asked for the copyright over the code to do Co-Pilot, I wouldn't mind. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0qe1FNqtCo&t=280s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0qe1FNqtCo&t=280s