I think the catch is, a human is considered a creative being, as in it can create new content which consequently is copyrighted to that human. An AI cannot - a

I think the catch is, a human is considered a creative being, as in it can create new content which consequently is copyrighted to that human. An AI cannot - at least so far - not create create genuinely new content and also cannot assume copyright. If the copilot would have been trained on open source software e.g. to discover bugs, bad code style, or other things "learned" by analyzing existing code and using the results of this analysis as a metric for judging code, it wouldn't be a copyright problem. But creating new code based on what it "learned" is a much more difficult field, especially, if it is "quoting" so literally.