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by swexbe 1134 days ago
It’s not accidental. Not infringing copyright isn’t part of the objective function like it would be for a human.
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gedy 1134 days ago
Not learning or not being inspired by copyrighted code is not a human function either though.
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bombolo 1134 days ago
Has a human ever memorised verbatim the whole of github?

If someone somehow managed to do that and then happened to have accidentally copied someone's code, how believable would their argument be?

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heavyset_go 1134 days ago
> Has a human ever memorised verbatim the whole of github?

No, and humans who have read copyrighted code are often prevented from working on clean room implementations of similar projects for this exact reason, so that those humans don't accidentally include something they learned from existing code.

Developers that worked on Windows internals are barred from working on WINE or ReactOS for this exact reason.

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