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Copilot just suggests code.

And someone accepts it. Even if suggesting derivatives of licensed code is not a license infringement, then Copilot sure is a vector for mass license infringement by the people clicking "Accept suggestion". And those people are unable to know (without doing extensive investigation that completely nullifies the point of the tool) whether that suggestion is potentially a verbatim copy of some existing work in an incompatible license.

If I suggest whole lines of dialogue to you, the screenwriter, did I write those lines or you? If you change names in those lines of dialogue to fit your story, do you now gain credit for writing those lines?

Suggesting code is generating code

> did I write those lines or you

Neither. Someone else did, and published it. Copilot copied the dialog and suggested it.

> If you change names in those lines of dialogue to fit your story, do you now gain credit for writing those lines?

It depends. Talking generalities isn't productive or interesting. Can you give an example and we can discuss specifics?

> Suggesting code is generating code

This isn't even superficially true

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