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None of these snippets have the creativity required for copyright protection.

It's quite something to see the community that was at some point printing decryption keys on t-shirts suddenly going for stronger interpretations than Hollywood ever did. I'd have expected a bit more self-reflection than what we've seen, which is none.

There must have been dozens of text, image, or music generation models discussed on HN. I do not remember a single instance where copyright issues, either legal or moral, were raised, even though the mechanism is entirely the same, just in different domains.

Code on Github at least has licenses, mostly of the open variety. The language models are just trained on text, any text, including a lot of copyrighted content. Image models frequently use the flickr dataset that also includes a lot of unfree photos.



> stronger interpretations than Hollywood ever did

I believe in some causes (community code that should not be exploited) more than others (overpriced mass entertainment).

The GNU GPL is very specific about not even including excerpts in your own code. Whoever uses Copilot violates it without even knowing.




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