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That depends only on who has the most expensive lawyers.

One thing in life is never to get into a position where you need to defend yourself against this scenario which is why I would never even consider using the tool.

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I wonder what the discussions with the lawyers are like at companies who want to use it. Are they all advising to avoid it and let someone else be the test case?

Well actually on that we asked. They advised us not to use it now or in the future regardless of any outcome because at any point of litigation it muddies the water on what is clean-room innovation and what is not. While a change might be defined by copilot, it is not possible or practical to record any causal data or attribution with the change. It's arguably better to have any plagiarism issues directly attributed to a corporeal engineer where the audit trail can be made and scope identified.

The outcome is that introducing the tool actually tangibly increases business risk in a changing climate.

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