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A year or so ago, there was a complaint from the NY Times (IIRC) that by asking about some event, they were able to get back one of their articles almost verbat
by mcswell 2y ago
A year or so ago, there was a complaint from the NY Times (IIRC) that by asking about some event, they were able to get back one of their articles almost verbatim--and alleging that this was a copyright violation. This appears to be a similar outcome, where you do get back the verbatim text. That to me is a good reason to do tests like this, although feel free to do it with the WaPo or some other news outlet instead.
- mmooss 2y agoThat is an essential point: Can you ask the application to return other copyright content, such as from books, transcripts, etc.? If so, what happens to their IP risks?
- fph 2y agoThere is a well-known case from 2021 where Copilot returned Quake's famous `invsqrt` code (GPL licensed) from a minimal prompt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287 .