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Unless something has changed, the training data also includes copyleft code, not just permissively licensed code
by Macha 4y ago
Unless something has changed, the training data also includes copyleft code, not just permissively licensed code
- visarga 4y agoRegarding the training of the model - I don't think a copyright can restrict reading, and training is reading, not distributing any original data. About deploying the model - it just needs to filter out verbatim exact snippets so it only outputs original, unattributable code. That can be done by hashing ngrams and a bloom filter. The vast majority of code generated by Codex is original anyway. By the way, Codex is good for many other tasks, like, parsing the fields of a receipt, or extracting the summary of an email, or generating baby names, it's an all purpose NLP tool. Just call it like a function. Code completion is just one thing it does. It talks pretty great English, can compose poems.
- CryZe 4y ago> it just needs to filter out verbatim exact snippets so it only outputs original, unattributable code. That's a setting now.