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Comment by Crosseye_Jack

19 days ago

I do love one bot asking another bot to sign a CLA! - https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/115732#issuecomment-2...

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pm215  18 days ago

That's funny, but also interesting that it didn't "sign" it. I would naively have expected that being handed a clear instruction like "reply with the following information" would strongly bias the LLM to reply as requested. I wonder if they've special cased that kind of thing in the prompt; or perhaps my intuition is just wrong here?

  • Bedon292  18 days ago

    A comment on one of the threads, when a random person tried to have copilot change something, said that copilot will not respond to anyone without write access to the repo. I would assume that bot doesn't have write access, so copilot just ignores them.

  • Quarrel  18 days ago

    AI can't, as I understand it, have copyright over anything they do.

    Nor can it be an entity to sign anything.

    I assume the "not-copyrightable" issue, doesn't in anyway interfere with the rights trying to be protected by the CLA, but IANAL ..

    I assume they've explicitly told it not to sign things (perhaps, because they don't want a sniff of their bot agreeing to things on behalf of MSFT).

90s_dev  18 days ago

Well?? Did it sign it???

  • jsheard  18 days ago

    Not sure if a chatbot can legally sign a contract, we'd better ask ChatGPT for a second opinion.

    • Hamuko  18 days ago

      I would imagine it can't sign it, especially with the options given.

      >I have sole ownership of intellectual property rights to my Submissions

      I would assume that the AI cannot have IP ownership considering that an AI cannot have copyright in the US.

      >I am making Submissions in the course of work for my employer (or my employer has intellectual property rights in my Submissions by contract or applicable law). I have permission from my employer to make Submissions and enter into this Agreement on behalf of my employer.

      Surely an AI would not be classified as an employee and therefore would not have an employer. Has Microsoft drafted an employment contract with Copilot? And if we consider an AI agent to be an employee, is it protected by the Fair Labor Standards Act? Is it getting paid at least minimum wage?

  • marcosdumay  18 days ago

    It didn't. It completely ignored the request.

    (Turns out the AI was programmed to ignore bots. Go figure.)