[leereeves]

If a trained language model exactly reproduces copyrighted text, is there any question about whether copyright still applies?

[benhurmarcel]

But then the infringement is done by the person who publishes that output, not by the text editor that copies the code.

[TchoBeer]

This is a useless hypothetical, no language models do that

[heavyset_go]

And yet there are plenty of examples of Copilot reproducing copyrighted code verbatim, like is does in this example[1] that was posted on HN.

[1] https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309

[jen20]

This is precisely what Copilot does, regularly.