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Take aways in summary:

- Copilot does sometimes rote copy for nontrivial situations - Mostly this happens when there isn't much context to go on. - Provided an empty file, it proceeds to recommend to write the GPL - They will add a "recitation detector" to copilot to indicate non-novel recommendations

By the standards of corp-speak this is pretty good, they admit there is a problem there and they intend to do something tractable to prevent it.

This entire copilot situation is far enough outside my personal "mental ethics model" that I'm personally abstaining form taking a stance until I have had a lot more time to think and learn about it.



They quite misdirect on what the problem actually is. Verbatim or quasi-verbatim recitations are not the only things copyright protects.




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