I mean, he clearly knew about that code in advance and used his prior knowledge to coax Copilot into spitting it out, yeah? Three characters can get you pretty far, that's 1 combination out of 125,580 (considering all english letters, upper and lower, along with most of the numbers and symbols on my keyboard), plus the description of a fairly complex algorithm.
Also, this code is really just executing a mathematical operation in what I would assume is fairly standard, so it may not even fall under copyright. IANAL.
Even if it is a copyright violation, that is one out of, IDK, millions, maybe billions already of Copilot completions?
That sounds cherry-picked. Just because some high profile, highly-retweeted person says something doesn't make it not cherry picked.
Also, this code is really just executing a mathematical operation in what I would assume is fairly standard, so it may not even fall under copyright. IANAL.
Even if it is a copyright violation, that is one out of, IDK, millions, maybe billions already of Copilot completions?
That sounds cherry-picked. Just because some high profile, highly-retweeted person says something doesn't make it not cherry picked.