[jjluoma]

This kind of comment, "co-pilot can write 90% of the code without me, just translating my explanation into python", about copilot troubles me. If the code has been mostly produced by co-pilot, does an user of copilot have sufficient grounds to to claim being the author and assert rights based on copyright? Globally?

[alexb_]

The United States Copyright Office has explicitly rejected AI-created works.

>the Office will not register works “produced by a machine or mere mechanical process” that operates “without any creative input or intervention from a human author” because, under the statute, “a work must be created by a human being

https://www.copyright.gov/rulings-filings/review-board/docs/...

[PartiallyTyped]

I had a similar discussion with a lawyer friend on the basis of copyright on artwork generated by ML models and what constitutes "artistic feedback" from the human. The tl:dr; of that story is that it depends on jurisdiction that you are probing/looking at. In UK you have copyright, in US you do not.

I suppose that something similar is at play here.