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I would like to point out that there is not as much of an uproar on this forum over DALL-E utilizing other people’s photographs, illustrations, et al, as there is around Copilot utilizing other people’s code.

Why do you think that is?

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One reason is that copilot could be easily prompted to "create" line for line reproductions of people's code. AFAICT, you can't do this with DALLE (even if you, for example, try to input the caption of an image directly).

- This is not a photography/illustration focused forum.

- Unlike software photography/illustration are not used to run essential systems like banking, manufacturing, medical equipment etc

While I have definitely seen discussions of safety from what I can gather the main point of contention is with copyright.

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