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>>belter+(OP)
Copilot is to license violations (esp of copyleft licenses) what cryptocurrency mixers are for money laundering.

My employer (IMHO smartly) forbids use of LLMs in company IP and company laptops, etc. Many others I'm sure are doing the same, and many others will follow.

>>cmrdpo+xh
Sorry your employer forbids the use of tooling that makes your life better and reduces drudgery. Perhaps you should vote with your feet and find a less Luddite employer.

>>fooste+ku
My company forbids the use of LLMs that aren't validated (and we make one).

Our managers get emails if we make calls to known LLMs, and there's guidance on locally running LLMs and using their output ("it's okay for small things maybe, but be careful"). Why?

Because legal's job is to protect the company from legal threats. Sometimes that means making some awkward choices, like handwringing over the use of GPL licensed software in publicly exposed example code (such as sample apps) purely because some aspects of the GPL haven't been tested in American courts, much less international ones.

So the use cases for LLMs there are mostly source-to-source transformative ("Turn this function and documentation into javadoc format please") or similar -- stuff where you can show that the LLM isn't introducing anything that might maybe possibly have any hint of externally licensed software.