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So, how often does it actually happen? Does it happen more often than for a human? Does anyone actually have numbers on this? Of course, if you provide already
by albertzeyer 4y ago
So, how often does it actually happen? Does it happen more often than for a human? Does anyone actually have numbers on this?
Of course, if you provide already a copyrighted prefix, and it has seen that code, the chances are high that it would complete the copyrighted code (because that is what you actually would also expect).
So, for real use cases in the wild, where you write some own real novel code, how often would it suggest some copyrighted code? And how often would a human?
I have used Copilot the last months and I have never ever seen such a case (I can be pretty sure because all the identifier names are really unique, and the code was very custom).
However, I assume that I myself might have produced copyrighted code unknowingly because if you write common patterns (e.g. some tree or graph search, or some sort function, implement LSTM or Transformer, whatever), the chances are not so low.