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by staticman27 hours ago |
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upvoteby heavyset_go4 hours ago|
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Human beings can create copyrightable code.

As per the US Copyright Office, LLMs can never create copyrightable code.

Humans can create copyrightable code from LLM output if they use their human creativity to significantly modify the output.

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upvoteby igniuss7 hours ago|
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a human can still be held accountable though, github copilot running amock less so
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upvoteby falcor847 hours ago|
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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 get from human contributors.

https://resources.github.com/learn/pathways/copilot/essentia...

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upvoteby blibble1 hours ago|
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9 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?

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upvoteby falcor8434 minutes ago|
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Are you concerned that this will bankrupt Microsoft?
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upvoteby tsimionescu5 minutes ago|
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I 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.
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upvoteby blibble19 minutes ago|
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be nice, wouldn't it?

poetic justice for a company founded on the idea of not stealing software

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upvoteby christoph-heiss6 hours ago|
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I think that they felt the need to offer such a service says everything, basically admitting that LLMs just plagiarize and violate licenses.
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upvoteby jayd166 hours ago|
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That covers any random contribution claiming to be AI?
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upvoteby falcor842 hours ago|
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Their 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.

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