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DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

Posted Jun 24, 2022 21:13 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering by Wol
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The license stating that something is considered a derived work doesn't make it a derived work. The copyright holder is still going to have to turn up in court and make that argument, and whoever created the allegedly derived work is going to defend against that. If the same judge heard the same arguments in a case where the license made no claims about whether or not something was a derived work, we'd expect to see the same decision.


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DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

Posted Jul 1, 2022 8:32 UTC (Fri) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

It would be very hard to argue in court that code produced by an AI trained on an existing code base is anything else than a derivation of this code base, since there is no human inventivity involved to muddy up waters.

Despite years of commercial pretense to the reverse professionals know “smart” systems are no smarter than the human who coded them.


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