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Google Search links to the original content. Copilot doesn't.
by xigoi 4y ago
Google Search links to the original content. Copilot doesn't.
- janosdebugs 4y agoWhen you ask it a question, it will often simply construct an answer from the pages it indexed, so people don't have to click. Sure, it links it, but for what? Thankfully, the answers are almost always useless.
- johnfn 4y agoAs I responded to someone else, this isn't always true. Google "when was George Washington born".
- hypertele-Xii 4y agoGeorge Washington's birthday is hardly copyrightable.
- tommek4077 4y agoSo are most of your functions and methods.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- throwaway675309 4y agoMaybe but it also uses those index cards that show a summary of information so you don't need to navigate to the actual website that contain the original content, there might be a link there but it's usually small and practically unnoticeable.
- xigoi 4y agoIf Copilot provided a “small and practically unnoticeable” attribution to the code used, it would definitely improve the situation, especially for licenses like MIT that require attribution and nothing else.