Most of these points can also be raised against DALL-E 2, but software has one extra thorn: patents.
It's a common advice to not read software patents[1] because the infringement penalties are lower if you did so unwittingly, that is, by reinventing the patented technique yourself.
I wonder if using Copilot doesn't push the penalties back again to wilful infringement. Or worse, patent trolls poisoning the training data with patented algorithms.
Idk about dalle but with stable diffusion if you type in "Mona Lisa" or "Van Gogh" you have to fight pretty hard with your prompt to NOT get identical reproductions of those respective works
It's a common advice to not read software patents[1] because the infringement penalties are lower if you did so unwittingly, that is, by reinventing the patented technique yourself.
I wonder if using Copilot doesn't push the penalties back again to wilful infringement. Or worse, patent trolls poisoning the training data with patented algorithms.
[1]: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3489047