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ttt0 on July 2, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary...

Nope. They did include GPL code.

> Once, GitHub Copilot suggested starting an empty file with something it had even seen more than a whopping 700,000 different times during training -- that was the GNU General Public License.

https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/research-recitatio...

pessimizer on July 2, 2021 [–]

Looks like Copilot is smart enough to understand its own licensing situation. It should continue to suggest this for any empty file.

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