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Why not complete that analogy? What if instead of Copilot, it was a bunch of humans who were searching all the source code they could access and then copying/a
by noasaservice 4y ago
Why not complete that analogy?
What if instead of Copilot, it was a bunch of humans who were searching all the source code they could access and then copying/autocompleting that code, regardless of the license.
Is that still OK? If yes, why?
- jakelazaroff 4y agoYou're reading too much into my comment. All I'm saying is that Copilot isn't "learning" like a human does.
- ctvo 4y agoA paid service where tens of hundreds of people search for publicly available code snippets and send them to you? I believe they call that outsourcing in some circles.
- remram 4y agoIn this case we'd be sending subpoenas to those people to make sure they hadn't been instructed to disregard licenses or copy large pieces of code verbatim.
- didibus 4y agoThat wouldn't be ok, I'm assuming that's what you're implying as well? In any case I would say that's not ok. Copying code, even if its from a mix of many different places, and the results look like a mosaic, would still be copying. If the Mturk worker just suggested an implementation they came up with that be fine.
- cycomanic 4y agoWhy not make the a ology the other way. If I put massive amounts of code into a database and develop some sort of query language that spits out various parts of the contents of the database based on the query am I covered by fair use?