[Kiro]

You make it sound like Copilot is just copy-pasting something from a single repo. The code Copilot generates for me is extremely specific to my application. It understands the context, my code style and what I'm trying to do.

The result looks like my own code and is utilizing the already existing parts of my application. The code it writes for me solves problems that you cannot find a standard solution for anywhere and is definitely not something that could be attributed.

How Copilot is trained is an issue but answering the question "where did this code come from and what license is it under" would be impossible.

[JoshTriplett]

> You make it sound like Copilot is just copy-pasting something from a single repo.

Not at all. I'm saying it's derived from large amounts of code, without respecting the licenses on that code.

> How Copilot is trained is an issue but answering the question "where did this code come from and what license is it under" would be impossible.

Then it shouldn't exist outside of demos of what could exist in the future if the showstopper legal problem gets solved. Let's get people treating that constraint as business-critical and start coming up with clever solutions, and see how long "impossible" lasts.

[WithinReason]

How is training on public source code a legal problem? Can you provide some links for that claim?

[fooster]

What a bunch of pure fear mongering nonsense. The code that is produced by copilot indistinguishable from the rest of the code in the code base. Get over yourself.

[Gigachad]

I'd like to see people try to cite the sources for the code they wrote. It's highly improbable that without looking at anyone else's work in their lives, they would have created anything remotely similar to what they produced.