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Kind of impressive when you think about it (infosec.pub)

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[–] borth@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"if they're gonna steal, they should at least do it right" I mean, I can see how someone would want to think that, but I'm fine with them failing to steal.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 hours ago

I don't know the original author's opinions on AI, but I think it's still fair to say that it was clearly Copilot's goal to steal all the code and be good, and they had all the code, and so ethics aside one would expect them to have succeeded with flying colour at whatever their goals were, even if those were bad goals.

But they failed instead, which is impressive.