All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot
Ok, my curiosity has been fired here...<p>I have conjured up two scenarios here:<p>Let&#x27;s say I use copilot to generate a bunch of code for an app, something substantial, and it regurgitates a load of bits and pieces from many sources it got from GitHub, I&#x27;d assume there won&#x27;t be any attribution in it... it will be as if Copilot made the code itself (I know it sort of does but lets not split hairs!). I&#x27;m guessing the prevailing theory (from GiitHub anyway) is that I&#x27;m legitimately allowed to do this.<p>Now, let&#x27;s say I generated all that code by manually copying and pasting chunks of code from a whole bunch of repos, whether they are open source, unlicensed, whatever. Would I not be ripe for legal issues? I could potentially find all the code that copilot generated and just copy and paste it from each of the sources and not mention that in my license. What if I told everyone &quot;yeah, I just copied and pasted this from loads of Github repos and didn&#x27;t put any attribution in my code&quot;. I&#x27;d assume that (morality aside) I&#x27;d be asking for trouble!<p>Am I missing something? Am I misunderstanding the situation, or the capabilities of copilot?