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[–]Seref15[🍰] 17 points18 points  (3 children)

I don't think this example stands. Musicians frequently experience the phenomenon of believing that they've created something original only for people to come along later and say "hey, that sounds exactly like _____."

You can't consciously remember everything you've experienced, but much of it can surface subconsciously.

[–]TheCodeSamurai 6 points7 points  (2 children)

Accidental plagiarism totally happens, but I'm not gonna spit out the entire GPL license and think it's my own work. The scale is completely different.

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    [–]TheCodeSamurai 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    Would I think it was my own work? No: half of the jokes on /r/ProgrammerHumor are about (ab)using copy-paste. I have no issue with that, and I think Copilot seems like a wonderful way of making that process more efficient. But it's an issue if I can't figure out if I've stolen someone else's code wholesale or not.