[ghoward]

GitHub has 56 million users as of September 2020 (according to Wikipedia). Let's assume that only 1 million of them use Copilot at an average of once a week.

That means that every week, there will be 1000 verbatim copypaste of code by Copilot. Then multiply that by a year or more as Copilot gets older.

0.1% may not seem like a lot, but at the scale of Internet companies, it always is.