New #blog post: An experiment to test GitHub Copilot’s legality.

A little thought experiment to see if we can determine Copilot’s legality. It’s ridiculous enough that it just might have some insightful message buried deep.

Excerpt:

I am not a lawyer. This post is satirical commentary on:

• The absurdity of Microsoft and OpenAI’s legal justification for GitHub Copilot.
• The oversimplifications people use to argue against GitHub Copilot (I don’t like it when people agree with me for the wrong reasons).
• The relationship between capital and legal outcomes.
• How civil cases seem like sporting events where people “win” or “lose”, rather than opportunities improve our understanding of law.

In the process, I intentionally misrepresent how the judicial system works: I portray the system the way people like to imagine it works. Please don’t make any important legal decisions based on anything I say.

An experiment to test GitHub Copilot's legality

A horrible idea to determine the legality of GitHub Copilot, or of re-creating proprietary speech synthesizers: create legal precedent that doesn't exist yet!

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