If you pay for Copilot Business/Enterprise, they actually offer IP indemnification and support in court, if needed, which is more accountability than you would get from human contributors.

https://resources.github.com/learn/pathways/copilot/essentia...

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blibble 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

9 lines of code came close to costing Google $8.8 billion

how much use do you think these indemnification clauses will be if training ends up being ruled as not fair-use?

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falcor84 an hour ago | parent [-]

Are you concerned that this will bankrupt Microsoft?

	▲	tsimionescu an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think they're afraid they will have to sue Microsoft to get them to abide by the promise to come to their defense in another suit.
	▲	blibble an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		be nice, wouldn't it? poetic justice for a company founded on the idea of not stealing software

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christoph-heiss 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think that they felt the need to offer such a service says everything, basically admitting that LLMs just plagiarize and violate licenses.

	▲	throwaway613746 an hour ago \| parent [-]
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jayd16 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That covers any random contribution claiming to be AI?

	▲	falcor84 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Their docs say: > If any suggestion made by GitHub Copilot is challenged as infringing on third-party intellectual property (IP) rights, our contractual terms are designed to shield you. I'm not actually aware of a situation where this was needed, but I assume that MS might have some tools to check whether a given suggestion was, or is likely to have been, generated by Copilot, rather than some other AI.