The AI community needs to take copyright lawsuits seriously.

Why The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI::The AI community needs to take copyright lawsuits seriously.

  • Adanisi@lemmy.zipEnglish
    41·
    9 months ago

    It didn’t just get the gist if the algorithm though, it literally had the same magic number (which isn’t even the most optimal iirc), the same COMMENTS (//what the fuck?), same variable names, etc.

    It didn’t produce the algorithm logically, it copied it.

    Wikipedia is also adhering to the GPL license of the code. Copilot is not, especially if it’s working on proprietary code or adding an MIT license header to copied GPL code (lol)

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      It didn’t produce the algorithm logically, it copied it.

      The magic number is part of the logic of the thing.

      But yes as said copilot is overfitted. Inverse sqrt still isn’t a good example, it’s nearly as bad as Oracle trying to claim to have found copyright infringement in Android’s standard Java library by saying that Math.average or whatnot is identical. There are way better examples of why copilot is fucked up.

      • Adanisi@lemmy.zipEnglish
        21·
        9 months ago

        The magic number is part of the logic, yes, but that’s not even the best magic number for the job iirc, and nobody remembers how they got it.

        I just used this as an example because it’s incredibly clear that it was copied verbatim (again, comments like “what the fuck?” showing up, you can’t tell me it came up with that itself)

    • tb_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      I had bing chat spit back at me the question I posted on stack overflow the day before. You know, the example code I provided which didn’t exactly work as I wanted.