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by andix 1748 days ago
Training, exactly. But the trained person or AI is not allowed to reproduce your exact code. But Copilot seems to do that from time to time.
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Sure they can, search engines produce copyrighted material all the time. The issue comes in when people think this somehow indemnifies them as users of Copilot - my guess is, it doesn't protect you any more than if you use a search engine to copy an entire codebase for your own purposes.