As a human, if you memorize a book word-for-word and later reproduce whole passages of the book in your own writing then that is considered plagiarism and copyright infringement. It does not matter that you stored it in your human memory before reproducing it.
The test to use is to imagine you’re writing an essay in college. If your essay contains unattributed passages from another work then the professor will not care that you memorized them rather than just copying and pasting the text. In order to be in the clear you need to properly quote and cite the original author.
GitHub copilot does not provide attribution. All it does is obfuscate the original source to make attribution impossible. Copyright lawyers ought to have a field day with this one.
The test to use is to imagine you’re writing an essay in college. If your essay contains unattributed passages from another work then the professor will not care that you memorized them rather than just copying and pasting the text. In order to be in the clear you need to properly quote and cite the original author.
GitHub copilot does not provide attribution. All it does is obfuscate the original source to make attribution impossible. Copyright lawyers ought to have a field day with this one.