GitHub’s AI Copilot Might Get You Sued If You Use It
The exaggerations won&#x27;t stop now, will they? First of all, it&#x27;s not as if CoPilot spits out verbatim replica of training data on every other prompt.<p>Secondly, the consequences of accidentally copying code by means of using this tool are pretty minor. The author acts as if copypasta from StackOverflow, RosettaCode and similar sites is NOT a daily occurrence (and can&#x27;t even be checked in the case of closed source software).<p>Fake gurus like Siraj Raval [0] can manage to literally <i>steal</i> - as in copying other people&#x27;s work and claiming it as their own - for years without consequences and face ZERO legal backlash even after being exposed. Some of his repos had hundreds or even thousands of stars and forks on GitHub, while the original authors he copied from got no attention or credit at all.<p>If this is what people can get away with who do this knowingly and deliberately and with entire projects, then I really have to wonder what the fuss is about when an ML model occasionally spits out a few lines of code snippets verbatim from its training set.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCWN3xxRkmTPmbKwht9FuE5A" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCWN3xxRkmTPmbKwht9FuE5A</a>