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I don't get what's wrong with Copilot being trained on GPL code. If I, a human, had learnt to code by reading GPL code, would that have rendered all the code I
by remix2000 4y ago
I don't get what's wrong with Copilot being trained on GPL code. If I, a human, had learnt to code by reading GPL code, would that have rendered all the code I ever write GPL too? After all, all human-created content is transformative due to how our brains work. And AI isn't all that different from us in the way it learns.
- BaculumMeumEst 4y agoThe issue is that if you, as a human, regurgitated swaths of GPL code verbatim, you would be in violation of copyright.
- bobsmooth 4y agoI can't fathom the amount of copyright infringement the Ctrl, C and V keys have caused.
- npteljes 4y agoYou might not be able, but larger enterprises pay serious money for solutions that make sure that the code is clean, so that a junior copypaster won't make the company liable. One of such is https://www.blackducksoftware.com/ https://www.blackducksoftware.com/
- blackoil 4y agoIf CodePilot is outputting unique enough GPL code verbatim, then a simple search can inform the user about it and he can make the decision to keep it or not. This could be a feature requirement.
- dewey 4y agoThere will still be a person committing the code that Copilot came up with in the end, wouldn't that person be in violation of copyright too then? Just like if they would've copied it from some code base they found online under a non-permissive license.
- dsr_ 4y ago"And AI isn't all that different from us in the way it learns." Citation, as they say, is needed. We have some vague ideas of how brains learn. We have some vague ideas of how GPT-3 works. They are not the same vague ideas. Is reality congruent? Nobody knows. There is certainly no existence proof of human- or gorilla- equivalency.