[devinplatt]

> This product injects source code derived from copyrighted sources into the software of their customers without informing them of the license of the original source code. This significantly eases unauthorized and unlicensed use of a copyright holder's work.

It appears that GitHub wishes to address this issue via UI changes to Copilot. A quote from a recent post on GitHub[0]:

> When a suggestion contains snippets copied from the training set, the UI should simply tell you where it’s quoted from. You can then either include proper attribution or decide against using that code altogether.

> This duplication search is not yet integrated into the technical preview, but we plan to do so. And we will both continue to work on decreasing rates of recitation, and on making its detection more precise.

That post is also on the Hacker News front page right now[1], but has 10% of the upvotes as this post so it's less visible.

I'm hoping all the criticism will encourage GitHub to make a better product.

[0]: https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/research-recitatio...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27723710