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Sure, if it's remixed to the point where most people don't go "hey that's Big Bird!" CoPilot doesn't, or at least doesn't always, like when it just copied Quake's fast inverse square code with the verbatim comments including profanity. Using CoPilot to create commercial code opens the coder to significant liability if there's enough money at stake.


That piece of code had duplicates in the training set making it prone to memorisation. Almost all generated code is original.


Almost all generated code is original

Good, you will almost not be liable for infringement.


Let's wait for the first big Codex infringement scandal to erupt and then I will start worrying about it.


Just argue that you subcontracted that code to Microsoft in good faith for $10/month and pass on the lawsuit to them.




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