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This is a pretty stupid hill to die on. Humans read code and forget authors too. Nobody cites 100% of the origin of their knowledge when writing new code. Most
by spywaregorilla 5y ago
This is a pretty stupid hill to die on. Humans read code and forget authors too. Nobody cites 100% of the origin of their knowledge when writing new code. Most people don't cite anything. You could write a script that says "this repo is similar to these repos" based on copilots embedding space and it would be far superior to any typical human attribution.
- ric2b 5y agoThe difference is that copilot is memorizing and reciting code verbatim without mentioning the source. If a human does that we call it plagiarism.