> Microsoft employees are forbidden from looking at GPL code because they may unconsciously recall it and use it in a Microsoft codebase
Isn't that exactly what Copilot does?
Isn't that exactly what Copilot does?
no, that is not what copilot does unless you check the box (or fail to uncheck the box) that allows exact matches of code from public repositories.
https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/configuring-github-copilo...
actual users of copilot seem to know this little bit of information; commenters who like to make comments about things they have never used always overlook details like this, and perpetually restate the things they learned about the topic months or years prior, even when those details were incorrect at the time, and are still incorrect today.
I see. But the setting (which surprises me that is opt-in) merely checks whether the output is an exact match and forces the system to produce a new output. The system can and does (as seen on the tweet) output verbatim code. So the question that parent commenter asked is legit.