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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I use copilot every day and I have zero clue what this means but I assume it has nothing to do with copilot... ?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Copilot is regurgitating the code he wrote, complete with comments addressed to himself

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This is exactly what it does. It steals code and does not abide by it's license.

Often it also removes or changes the license/attribution.