GitHub / Microsoft
GitHub / Microsoft — organisation named in the Production AI Institute incident registry.
What changed
Researchers and users discovered that GitHub Copilot would reproduce verbatim sections of copyrighted, GPL-licensed code from its training data — including commented attribution headers. A class action lawsuit was filed in 2022 alleging copyright infringement and violation of open source licence te…
Timeline
- 1 Jan 2022GitHub Copilot Reproduced Licensed Code VerbatimIncident80%