@maija @EdBoatConnoisseur "copilot" is the same kind of LLM technology as any other LLM.

>i assume copilot literally just looks through code that already exists and tries to parse what snippest are relavent.
That is a simplification of what LLM's do on any sort of text.

>the courts ruled that these generative ai outputs are public domain iirc
It's really incredible freedom washing if you can take GPLv3-or-later software and then can claim that a 1:1 copy of substantial parts with some trivial changes like slightly different variable names is public domain.

I haven't heard of a court case ruling that outputs are public domains, just some non-court decision.