> If they generate verbatim copies of any non-trivial-enough part that would be the subject of a copyright license, yes, it would be copyright infringement. Yet, could anyone give such practical examples?
It's always the same two examples, and I would not classify that as "many", especially since that fast inverse square root function has been shown to be on GitHub and other sites countless of times with all sorts of different licences (which is wrong, but copilot doesn't seem to do better or worse than humans in this regard).
That codeium.com is just asking leading questions, or the AI equivalent of that.
It is mutatis mutandis the same but is that a problem? I'm sure many would say so, I'm not convinced.
Ultimately if his code is out there a Google search could bring up a snippet without the license visible and I might copy paste that. The crux is the same code might be presented without context.
Copilot is just a tool and the personal responsible for it's safe usage is the human behind it.
In my world view, if I copy a picture off Google image search ultimately I am morally the one who infringed copyright not Google.
> In my world view, if I copy a picture off Google image search ultimately I am morally the one who infringed copyright not Google.
I have an idea why, but... why exactly? What about a web scraper (that I made, similarly to that of Google) that downloads images? What if it is randomly downloading images and not intentionally a specific one?
Yes, there are many such examples.
https://twitter.com/docsparse/status/1581461734665367554
https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309
https://codeium.com/blog/copilot-trains-on-gpl-codeium-does-...