[thesuperbigfrog]

>> It can even read an invoice, you can ask it "what is the due date?" It's a system that solves due date and Ishmael questions out of the box. And everything in-between.

That's cool.

But emitting copyrighted code without attribution and in violation of the code's license is still copyright infringement.

If I created a robot assistant that cleans your house, does the shopping, and occasionally stole things from the store, it would still be breaking the law.

[visarga]

> occasionally stole things from the store

It's fascinating to see how stretchy the word "steals" is nowadays. You can make anything be theft - copying open online content and sharing? theft, learning from data and generating - also theft. Stealing from a physical store - you guessed it.

[thesuperbigfrog]

>> It's fascinating to see how stretchy the word "steals" is nowadays. You can make anything be theft

Theft has a definite legal meaning. So does copyright infringement.

The court can decide if it is copyright infringement or fair use:

https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/pdf/1-0-github_complaint...

[throwaway675309]

While I do enjoy everybody acting as armchair lawyers.... until we get an actual legal ruling, the general consensus seems to be that it is sufficiently transformative as to be considered fair use.