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If you pay for Copilot Business/Enterprise, they actually offer IP indemnification and support in court, if needed, which is more accountability than you would
by falcor84 9mo ago
If you pay for Copilot Business/Enterprise, they actually offer IP indemnification and support in court, if needed, which is more accountability than you would get from human contributors.
https://resources.github.com/learn/pathways/copilot/essentials/establishing-trust-in-using-github-copilot/ https://resources.github.com/learn/pathways/copilot/essentia...
- christoph-heiss 9mo agoI think that they felt the need to offer such a service says everything, basically admitting that LLMs just plagiarize and violate licenses.
- throwaway613746 9mo ago[dead]
- jayd16 9mo agoThat covers any random contribution claiming to be AI?
- falcor84 9mo agoTheir docs say: > If any suggestion made by GitHub Copilot is challenged as infringing on third-party intellectual property (IP) rights, our contractual terms are designed to shield you. I'm not actually aware of a situation where this was needed, but I assume that MS might have some tools to check whether a given suggestion was, or is likely to have been, generated by Copilot, rather than some other AI.
- blibble 9mo ago9 lines of code came close to costing Google $8.8 billion how much use do you think these indemnification clauses will be if training ends up being ruled as not fair-use?
- falcor84 9mo agoAre you concerned that this will bankrupt Microsoft?
- blibble 9mo agobe nice, wouldn't it? poetic justice for a company founded on the idea of not stealing software
- tsimionescu 9mo agoI think they're afraid they will have to sue Microsoft to get them to abide by the promise to come to their defense in another suit.