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heisenbittoday at 8:34 AM1 replyview on HN

My suspicion is that it violates the users copyright on their commit message.


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rodwtoday at 10:57 AM

Technically (in the US at least) purely AI-generated content has no copyright, hence any copyright associated with the commit can only assigned to the human authors (or the entity they are working for). As I understand it neither Copilot nor Microsoft should have any actual claim of authorship (from a copyright/IP perspective).

It's still quite problematic IMO