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Prof. CS@TAMU. Fellow SIAM, ACM. For ethical issues with @Github and a possible path forward: https://t.co/WFGELT8u02
Oct 16, 2022 6 tweets 4 min read
@github copilot, with "public code" blocked, emits large chunks of my copyrighted code, with no attribution, no LGPL license. For example, the simple prompt "sparse matrix transpose, cs_" produces my cs_transpose in CSparse. My code on left, github on right. Not OK. Image Sparse matrix addition, from github.com/DrTimothyAlden… but also reguritated by copilot with "// sparse matrix add, cs_". My code on left, github on right. Image