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by prosim 984 days ago
They did not prompt at all. They used GitHub’s code search to find projects where the repo owner specified that the code was generated “by Copilot” and the authors took that at face value for all code in the project. Whether the code was actually suggested by Copilot is not at all analyzed in the paper. As such, the results are highly questionable.