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Explored github copilot,a paid service, to see if it encodes code from repositories w/ restrictive licenses. I checked if it had code I had written at my previous employer that has a license allowing its use only for free games and requiring attaching the license. yeah it does

10:06 PM · Jun 22, 2022Twitter Web App

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The 3 lines it suggested are right out of the source engine SDK verbatim

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Note that it reproduced not only the numeric sequence verbatim but even my messed up line boundary.

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Another reason to not use this besides it cut/pasting copyrighted code without obeying the license is that it emits gibberish. It's suggestion here is just a bunch of mixed up nonsensical lines from the same source file I wrote:

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I don't think even Microsoft wants the world to code like Microsoft

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Microsoft had explicitly stated that their legal theory is that the model training is fair use even if with certain prompts it might exactly reproduce some code from the training set, so this is not surprising.

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their legal theory is if they automate the stealing and call it a "model" they can get away with it lmao

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I can see an auto complete service like this being useful if it pulled from your own previous projects... since generally once you write a good function, you're more than likely to keep reusing it. But just random auto complete seems like the chaotic evil choice.

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Bold of you to suggest I write good functions

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