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Github Copilot is not AI at all, it is just a dumb code regurgitator that just sells you code you wrote on GitHub and takes all the credit for it shamelessly.

>>colesa+(OP)
it's totally AI, in the "legal responsibility laundering" sense. This is the main present day use case for saying "AI".

>>colesa+(OP)
Hopefully you understand how artists feel about DALL-E and Midjourney now.

>>colesa+(OP)
I use copilot in my work every day, but only in places where I know the code cannot be regurgitated because what I'm doing has never been done before.

I can write an HTML form, then prompt copilot to generate a serializable class that can be used to deserialize that form on the server. I can write a test for one of our internal apis, and for every subsequent test I can just write the name of what I expect it to check and it generates a test that correctly uses our internal APIs and verifies the expected behavior.

You can have problems with the ethics of how GitHub and OpenAI produced what they did, but to describe it the way that you did requires never having really attempted to use it seriously.

>>Jevon2+38
I like that if you prompt these with specific artists names, they try their best to rip those particular artists off.

>>davidg+D3
Yeah you can just throw some "AI" into the code and suddenly people are okay with it stealing licensed code. I really thought technically inclined people would be resistant to this type of manipulation from advertisers but it seems like most people are totally going for it!

>>chlori+Bx
Not just plagiarisms - today you could be subjected to consequential mistreatment "because AI told us to, not us doing". The concept of "legal responsibility laundering" GP used could cover either infringements.