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An interesting (though not conclusive) test of whether Microsoft is confident that Copilot is not copyright-infringing is whether they’d be willing to release a
by paulgb 4y ago
An interesting (though not conclusive) test of whether Microsoft is confident that Copilot is not copyright-infringing is whether they’d be willing to release a mode trained only on proprietary Microsoft code.
- jarbus 4y agoI really like this idea
- remram 4y agoI was wondering about something similar. Can we get Copilot to come up with some non-free algorithm under copyright from another big company (with lawyers), e.g. Oracle, Microsoft, Google, etc? This is a little difficult because it would need to be non-free but public, be specific enough that we can recognize it, and I think Copilot has protections against outputting code verbatim (but it could be made to output code with variable names changed or similar). That is probably the way to kickstart a legal discussion about Copilot.