[kanonade]

Oh my god, round and round on this topic. Leave it alone. Copilot is an amazing tool and demo of what AI can do. I will happily pay for good ML products, which a notoriously hard area to monetize.

Copilot may produce results from the training set, but if you're letting it do that, that says more about you than about copilot.

All of these claims use the example "Write me a function to foo the bar that takes baz as an argument". If you prompt it to write entire functions and classes for you, then it will lean on its training set.

But if you actually just write code, then it will complete small single lines in exactly the style you've previously written. With code that is unique to your program because it can synthesize new code.

In this role copilot is no different than a search engine. By prompting it lazily, copilot isn't the one stealing the code, you are.