> Yes, I agree that it's unclear how to deal with that in the general case at scale. Although cases like OP make me think that we could maybe worry about the grey area after we've dealt with the blatant copies.
The way I see copilot's output is that it's already in the grey zone. As with other models like this there are no snippets in the model. I can for example generate similar looking code to the cs_transpose function in Lua if I nudge it a bit. To me this seems equivalent of someone remembering exactly how a function works (to some extent..) and being able to write it in whatever language without copy pasting.
So the output as far as I understand is very grey. Maybe there's something in the training part that can be discussed, but as I mentioned earlier I'm not sure what else you can do other than check the license of some code or avoid creating copilot in the first place.
The way I see copilot's output is that it's already in the grey zone. As with other models like this there are no snippets in the model. I can for example generate similar looking code to the cs_transpose function in Lua if I nudge it a bit. To me this seems equivalent of someone remembering exactly how a function works (to some extent..) and being able to write it in whatever language without copy pasting.
So the output as far as I understand is very grey. Maybe there's something in the training part that can be discussed, but as I mentioned earlier I'm not sure what else you can do other than check the license of some code or avoid creating copilot in the first place.
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