Copilot is a fancy pattern bot. Humans make original patterns, but since Copilot cannot think, then Copilot does not. It squashes together a bunch of small ind

Copilot is a fancy pattern bot. Humans make original patterns, but since Copilot cannot think, then Copilot does not. It squashes together a bunch of small individual patterns, each under their own license, but at no stage does it do anything more than pick a line from here, and a line from there. It doesn’t think, and it doesn’t create new IP. It is like making a picture out of small snippets of a thousand other pictures, and then selling it.. clearly not OK. You still ripped off the original artists. Or like plagiarising 100 of your class mates’ assignments. Are you less guilty because you went to the effort to steal just a few sentences from each? A criminal who steals a cent from every account at the bank is a more sophisticated thief than someone who holds up a petrol servo. If Copilot doesn’t create new IP (it doesn’t; we established this), then it uses existing IP. And in that case it is no different to any of the three analogies above.