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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 06:20:42 JST Rich Felker

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   @simon @luis_in_brief @wwahammy @matt @danilo @maria It's like a windowed superimposition where there are often large supports where the window value against a particular piece of training data is 1.0. I don't see that as materially different from "copy and paste". It is very much "interpolated plagiarism", and it's been documented that there's explicit stripping of identifying characteristics to cover up the similarity to source material.

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     Simon Willison (simon@fedi.simonwillison.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 06:20:43 JST Simon Willison

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     @dalias @luis_in_brief @wwahammy @matt @danilo @maria the copy and pasting metaphor doesn't feel right to me

     I think of it more as it taking an /average/ of every example it's seen - still completely ignoring licensing and copyright issues

     I often use it to refactor my code - "extract this into a function" for example - where everything it outputs is "copied and pasted" from my own input that I gave it, just in a very slightly different shape

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 06:20:44 JST Rich Felker

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     @luis_in_brief @wwahammy @simon @matt @danilo @maria If you got working Python, it didn't "generate" it. It copy and pasted from a gigantic corpus of FOSS with licenses requiring attribution & possibly copyleft, and per its creators' explicitly programmed intent, it stripped enough to hide that.

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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 06:20:46 JST Luis Villa

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     @wwahammy @simon @dalias @matt @danilo @maria dunno, man, it's generating working python and shell that Does Shit for me. Maybe my scripts count as bullshit to you, or maybe the time I saved is bullshit to you, or maybe it's bullshit that I didn't hire somebody on fiverr to write them for me, but they're pretty useful bullshit to me.