shit shit shit shit shit. Dealt with my first set of AI-generated-code plagiarism cases this semester.
Dear students: LLMs are terrible plagiarists and they do not give a damn (or have any capacity to care or avoid doing so) if they get you in deep doodoo by reproducing verbatim code from existing repositories on github or from web pages. And on assignments, it's quite likely to happen.
We didn't identify these cases by using an AI detector: They were identical to a source on the web!
@jimgon I think it's a little tricky. On one hand, most problems you're solving in the real world are more unique than class assignments. On the other hand, the sub-problems you often repeat are definitely not unique. I'd be extremely wary.
(I should say that I personally use Copilot and like it - but I use it a line at a time as a smart autocomplete and don't let it generate entire functions for me.)
That's not really how IP works with regard to code. If copypasta code were a real legal liability, the tsunami of lawsuits would've already happened: not because of AI, but because of the easy and intentional sharing of good solutions online (and a culture of using verified solutions instead of re-inventing the wheel every time you need one)
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