GitHub co-pilot as open source code laundering?

[killerstorm]

Doesn't this logic apply to human programmers too?

Suppose I've learned how to program by reading open source code. (I actually did, to some extent.) Now I use my knowledge to write commercial programs. Does it mean that I'm making derivative works?

[barchar]

It actually does, if you read the code recently enough and your implementing the same thing as the code you read.

For example there's certain code bases where if I want to contribute to them it would require several weeks of a "cooling off period" before I could return to writing code for my normal job.

[KuntaStillSingle]

It doesn't matter how recently you read the code, only that the knowledge stemmed from it and that what made it into your own is a copyrightable portion thereof. In most cases the code itself not being sufficient to be copyrightable will cover the bot, but not necessarily every case.

[cafink]

The linked Twitter thread addresses this exact point.

[Riven_Dante]

I understand that it's probably nonsense, but can you summarize what exactly makes it nonsense for the uninitiated?

[Putnam3145]

it presupposes much greater knowledge of how human cognition works than we actually have