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0 pointssebzim45002y ago0 comments

Surely the users would only be liable if they

(i) actually produced code which is verbatim the same as a block of GPL code

(ii) got caught

>I look forward to sending out demands for settlement to everyone that's ever publicly admitted using copilot

Feel free, they'll tell you to leave them alone. Then what? Might as well ask every fortune 500 company for a pony instead.

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personally I think they'll ruling will result in one of two possible outcomes

1. LLMs are learning like a human, so it's fair use -> GPL dead

2. anything LLMs output are a derivative work (in the copyright sense) of what went into it -> all Copilot output is infringing the GPL

in the second case: anyone that's used it is now liable (even if they didn't intend to be)

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