Don't know about this. While copilot was shown to use snippets of code, its model is also not meant to do that, and won't if there is further refining. For copilot to get better, it needs to understand the purpose of each piece of code instead of the purpose of whole sections, which matches the idea of avoiding plagiarism. It becomes a general understanding of code.
Beyond the intent and future argument, there's also the question of how much copied code do you consider to be plagiarised code. Unless you're purposefully having copilot do entire files for you, the architecture & quirks will vary. We all know there is some sort of "plagiarism limit" somewhere between copying a small function that you found smart and a bigger function, purposefully unique to its program. There's truly a need to ask whether code made of hundreds of pieces of different sources can be considered plagiarism of any of them. And going further, there's a need to question whether we would hold a robot and a human to different standards on that matter too.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
