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He may understand law well, but not code and AI. I didn't see the author address that licensed code could be spit out, in large unedited chunks, by Copilot. I
by philote 4y ago
He may understand law well, but not code and AI. I didn't see the author address that licensed code could be spit out, in large unedited chunks, by Copilot. I would expect that to be brought up as well as discussion about how much code needs to be copied to become a license violation. Also, while most of the article was pretty digestible by a layman, he only mentioned "fair use" but didn't give a definition of it. And while something may be "fair use" for copilot, what about the user who then uses that code? His comparison to Google getting sued for scanning books to provide search didn't really fit well.
- kcb 4y agoLicensed unedited code can be spit out by a google search too.
- SahAssar 4y agoLiterally nobody claims that googled code can be used without agreement from the author.
- satvikpendem 4y agoGoogle Books also shows verbatim passages of text, sometimes entire pages much longer than what Copilot typically emits, yet Google Books was deemed to be fair use by the courts. I've edited my comment above to show that he's also president of the Open Source Hardware Association so I think he knows how open source code works.
- nequo 4y agoGoogle Books tells you what book the passage comes from so you can give proper attribution if you use it. GitHub Copilot doesn't do that.
- sdenton4 4y agoThe examples I've seen of this involve basically writing the attribution in the prompt, making the question moot...