>> If you had said it can copy/paste its training data I wouldn't have argued, but "it just copy/pastes the code it was trained on" is demonstrably false, and anyone who's really tried it will tell you the same thing.
So if "it could commit copyright infringement, but does not always do so" is good enough for your company's legal review team, then go for it.
Has anyone tried to see how similar is their manually written code to other codes out there? I bet small snippets 1-2 lines long are easy to find. It would be funny to realise that we're more "regurgitative" than Copilot by mere happenstance.
So if "it could commit copyright infringement, but does not always do so" is good enough for your company's legal review team, then go for it.