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Copilot lawsuits & Galactica "science"

Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science, LLM

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Is GitHub Co-Pilot a Good Idea?

On November 3rd, there was a lawyer that filed a class action lawsuit against GitHub. The basic charge is that co-pilot suggestions aren't boilerplate or sort of novel but they bear kind of unmistakable fingerprints of their original authors. And according to many open source licenses, if you're not giving at least attribution to those copyright holders, even if it's an open source license, then you're in violation of the license, right? Yeah.

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