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The difference appears to be that Github Copilot just reproduces, verbatim, snippets of code without actually doing anything transformative to it. You cannot de
by Karunamon 4y ago
The difference appears to be that Github Copilot just reproduces, verbatim, snippets of code without actually doing anything transformative to it. You cannot describe a sort algorithm and have it spit out something other than a direct reproduction of someone else's implementation.
With these artwork models, they can emulate general styles, occasionally known characters or bits of text will show up in the output, but it is (as far as I've seen) never a 1 to 1 faithful reproduction of the training material with no changes made.
This is an important difference from a legal perspective, not just a moral one. Whether or not a use of copyrighted work is transformative is a big part of whether that use is fair or not.
- ShamelessC 4y ago> verbatim It actually, by default I believe, now checks for exact collisions with any existing GitHub code (the training data) and removes them. These are somewhat rare in any case, is my understanding. Not to detract from your other points. Just a common misconception I see a lot.
- itronitron 4y agoWell, if you crop the image you are more likely to end up with an exact copy of prior work. Similarly, Copilot can be seen to reproduce 'snippets of code' but would probably struggle with a full application. The images generated from these AI models are not transformative. In fact they are not even generating art, they are only generating pictures.