[batmanturkey]

It’s not about “learning” at all, copilot spits out copyrighted licensed code verbatim directly copied from the source to your project in violation of specific and multitudinous repositories.

They are making rips of other peoples stuff, selling the contents of peoples “books/movies/songs” sans author attribution or album credits etc… to put it in terms you may be familiar with Vinegar and salt on open wounds. Bad

[seadan83]

Is there any nuance for scope? Software I've licensed as GPL, I'm concerned about the working software being re-used and re-licensed for something commercial. For a given method out of tens-of-thousands, it's very not-germaine to the overall software to the point that I don't see it is a really relevant (but that is my opinion). Though, if someone likes the opening sentence of the encylopedia (or some other giant work), and an AI says, "this is a good opening sentence - does that really make for "ripping" off? Isn't the covered work the larger contents of the encylopedia, rather than an arbitrarily well written opening sentence? Isn't the big part of the work the ensemble?

I'm starting to wonder about these arguments, and whether we've gone into bad faith and hyperbole territory here. Are algorithms subject to copyright? Is it the case that if a GPL work uses a well known algorithm, that GPL work cannot be used as a reference? (Given that algorithms have very limited forms they can take, using an algorithm as a reference is really just copying it. Even translating pseudo-code to code, it's still the same thing).

Can you explain to me how something like using Eulers formula to solve a math problem would not be copyright infringement? A GPL project might use that formula somewhere, but then using that would be a copyright violation?

How about HTML source code, does putting a 'copyright' notice on the webpage make it invalid to then use any of the javascript, even if it has nothing special to do with the domain of the website?

"selling the contents of peoples “books/movies/songs”

Going to this analogy, I don't know if it is really the contents, but more like the first sentence, or even the first few words of that sentence rather than any recognizable subset of that work.

Like, if I have an app that does a spreadsheet, I don't care if you take an implementation of quick sort from my code as reference, but I do care if you use the same and main features of the spreadsheet app that I made.

[abigail95]

Whether verbatim copying infringes copyright can only be determined by a court, and only on a case by case basis.

Anyone saying "in violation" without doing a fair use test doesn't know how copyright works.