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From most articles I've read on this topic, I haven't been sympathetic to the claims that GitHub Copilot violates copyright. After all, human intelligence learn
by zugi 4y ago
From most articles I've read on this topic, I haven't been sympathetic to the claims that GitHub Copilot violates copyright. After all, human intelligence learns by reading books and reviewing code and then producing novel code. The results are influenced by what the human inteligence has seen, and there's nothing wrong with that - all of the world's knowledge builds from prior knowledge. Trying to lock all of that away via copyright claims is not the intention of copyright law. Copyright law applies to explicit copying.
But a recent article showed some specific examples where a 15-line code chunk was clearly copied and pasted from someone's github code, with a couple variables renamed and identical comments but with '//' instead of '/* ... */'. If this were homework, it would be reported as copied.
So I suspect there's not as much "intelligence" in this system as advertised.
- fhd2 4y agoWell, LLMs, like other ML models, are just algorithms that were automatically derived from test data. Calling that "intelligence" seems fine for marketing, but I doubt it flies in a court of law. IANAL though.