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		FeepingCreature on Oct 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits ... Prohibiting training would not affect the produced source, but it would make the training itself illegal.

jefftk on Oct 17, 2022 [–]

Probably not? Models are trained on restrictively licensed things all the time, such as images that are still in copyright. This is generally believed to be fair use, though I think this has not been tested in court?

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