As a university lecturer you don’t get attribution for everything your students do after they graduate.
I fail to see how anyone with your viewpoint isn’t flat out being intellectually dishonest. It is understood that it is both (usually) legal and ethical to not attribute someone when they teach someone an abstract skill set which they use to develop something “new”. LLMs inarguably bring us closer to reaching that point without implicating human effort in the creation process. “You did it with a computer, so copyright!”is such a naive and frankly wasteful take as it threatens to forego massive societal advances in favour of intellectual property rights. What sort of society is that!? An overly American one, that’s for sure.
The link I provided shows copilot regurgitating a 21 line function pretty much exactly. The comments are changed from //comment style to /*comment*/ style and some of the variables have been renamed, but thats about it.
This isn't a student learning from a teacher, its a student copy-and-pasting an answer they found. It isn't learning an abstract skill set which it is using to develop something new, its literally just copying the code.
It is utterly dishonest to make the comparison you do in your comment.
I fail to see how anyone with your viewpoint isn’t flat out being intellectually dishonest. It is understood that it is both (usually) legal and ethical to not attribute someone when they teach someone an abstract skill set which they use to develop something “new”. LLMs inarguably bring us closer to reaching that point without implicating human effort in the creation process. “You did it with a computer, so copyright!”is such a naive and frankly wasteful take as it threatens to forego massive societal advances in favour of intellectual property rights. What sort of society is that!? An overly American one, that’s for sure.