I guess it's a bit of a philosophical disagreement. In my view: I don't believe a machine (at least not any we're capable of creating) can truly learn. Copilo

I guess it's a bit of a philosophical disagreement. In my view: I don't believe a machine (at least not any we're capable of creating) can truly learn. Copilot is a machine working on its inputs. Humans think and create. Maybe it can be argued that humans are just more complicated machines, but I don't think most people would agree with such an equivalency. Copilot is constructed almost entirely from others' code. There's a tiny fraction of original "ai glue" in there, but the end product is arguably a derivative work of all that code it was trained on. As is its output. It can also be argued that the AI part is really just an obfuscating copy machine. One that was created specifically for that task. And of course, the real killing blow: if/when it reproduces training code verbatim, and you don't notice... will "copilot did it" be a valid defense in court? There are different opinions on that I guess, but no one knows for sure -- and I wouldn't take that risk.