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a training program reads source code and produces a model the software running the model does not have access to source code as the parent said, it depends ho
by jazzyjackson 4y ago
a training program reads source code and produces a model
the software running the model does not have access to source code
as the parent said, it depends how you characterize it, which is why this will be decided by whoever can afford the best lawyers.
- BeefWellington 4y agoWell, the problem is with that characterization is that it's shown to be false already. Copilot has reproduced entire functions from existing codebases, which invalidates the idea it doesn't have access to source code.
- jazzyjackson 4y agoI would have to better understand language transform models to back up my argument, but my impression is that copilot is not sitting ontop of a SQL database ripping the most likely line of code out of a row of a table, rather, it is a lossy compression that happens to be able to reconstruct some data better than others