[unxdfa]

Yeah we were told not to use it by the lawyers at work and have an official policy against using it. Not having that would open us up for liability if we’re sued as there’s no defence that what we did was clean room if we admitted using it.

We’ll hang back until other companies have litigated their way to some legislation around it.

[hashtag-til]

Same here. Told to steer clear of this (in fairness, not only CoPilot, also ChatGPT and stuff), until somebody else pipeclean this in the courts.

No matter what is said, there are no license guarantees on the generated code, as you don’t know the exact provenance, so it seems only sensible to be on the safe side.

[aliswe]

The lawyers on my last job were terrified to know that we store tracking information on website visitors computers that is used to track them by third party corporations.

[hashtag-til]

Yes, I can imagine. It’s all fun and games until you get something that sticks on generally available media/press for example Cambridge Analytica sort of stuff.