Most of these points can also be raised against DALL-E 2, but software has one extra thorn: patents. It's a common advice to not read software patents[1] becau

Most of these points can also be raised against DALL-E 2, but software has one extra thorn: patents. It's a common advice to not read software patents[1] because the infringement penalties are lower if you did so unwittingly, that is, by reinventing the patented technique yourself. I wonder if using Copilot doesn't push the penalties back again to wilful infringement. Or worse, patent trolls poisoning the training data with patented algorithms. [1]: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3489047 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3489047