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If you pulled a marble out of a bag ten times a day, with a 0.1% chance each time that it was red: after a day you'd have a 1% chance of seeing a red marble, the first week you'd have a 6.7% chance, the first month you'd have a 26% chance, and the first working year you'd have a 92.6% chance of having seen at least one red marble.

Probabilities are fun!

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Well within the margin of fair use.

That's not how fair use works. It doesn't matter how unlikely it is, if Copilot one day decides to "suggest" a significant snippet of ckxd from a GPLed app, you'd better be planning to GPL your project.

No, and this has been outlined in the past why that is not the case.

e.g. https://lwn.net/Articles/61292/ and most likely only one opinion.

on the other hand, it would be interesting to learn about what the copyright implications are of

a) creating a utility like copilot (it is a software program) and contains a corpus based on copyrighted material (the database that has been trained)

b) using it to create code based on the corpus and resulting in software as a work under copyright.

And you would have a whole lot of blue marbles.

I only murdered them once isn't the best of legal defenses.

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