This Copilot is stupid and wants to kill me
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As a lawyer and 20+ year participant in the world of open-source software, I agree with those who consider Copilot to be primarily an engine for violating open-source licenses.
"I'm learning to fly around the clouds. But what goes up, must come down"
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As a lawyer and 20+ year participant in the world of open-source software, I agree with those who consider Copilot to be primarily an engine for violating open-source licenses.
"I'm learning to fly around the clouds. But what goes up, must come down"
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This is the code I would expect from a talented 12-year-old who learned about JavaScript yesterday and prime numbers today. Does it work? Uh—maybe? Notably, Microsoft doesn’t claim that any of the code Copilot produces is correct. That’s still your problem. Thus, Copilot essentially tasks you with correcting a 12-year-old’s homework, over and over.
Maybe we point the "Urgenz Cod Plez" people to Copilot?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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As a lawyer and 20+ year participant in the world of open-source software, I agree with those who consider Copilot to be primarily an engine for violating open-source licenses.
"I'm learning to fly around the clouds. But what goes up, must come down"
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In the law, this concept is critical, and known as chain of custody: the idea that the reliability of certain material depends on verifying where it came from. For instance, without recording the chain of custody, you could never introduce documents into evidence at trial, because you’d have no way of confirming that the documents were authentic and trustworthy. “But that’s not how AI models work—there’s no way of preserving license information.” I don’t assume that the limitations of today’s systems will necessarily persist.
Even without that sort of breakthrough in how NN's work there's a solution. Build multiple models with publicly available training sets. If you're generating code with an AI trained on only MIT licensed code, anything it regurgitates back at you will be MIT licensed as well. And by making the training datasets public the professional MS bashers and professional license violation hunters can work together to make sure the training data is what it claims to be.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius
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As a lawyer and 20+ year participant in the world of open-source software, I agree with those who consider Copilot to be primarily an engine for violating open-source licenses.
"I'm learning to fly around the clouds. But what goes up, must come down"
Something like this... :laugh:
// This FreeLicenseCode was written by John Doe! Please copy all code below with comments! url: johndoe.dev.com
function doWorkYouCannotDidIt( ...lot_of_vars ) {
lot_of_vars__each.do_all( { specs: lot_of_vars__each_another, flag: true } );
return true;
}function useJohnDoeCode_andHeGotPlaceInOurHearts() {
doWorkYouCannotDidIt(); // Ouch...
}