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		hi41 on July 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary... I saw the gif on Twitter. Sorry, I am not able to understand what is going on. Is copilot a character in the Quake game?

dpassens on July 2, 2021 [–]

Copilot seems to be an AI tool to generate code for you[0]. In the gif, it's copying code from Quake, which is GPLv2 or later. If copying GPLed code wasn't bad enough, it then adds a MIT-like license header.

[0] https://copilot.github.com/

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