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> Copilot should be inspiring people to figure out how to do better than it, not making hackers get up in arms trying to slap it down. One of the (many) proble
by luffapi 5y ago
> Copilot should be inspiring people to figure out how to do better than it, not making hackers get up in arms trying to slap it down.
One of the (many) problems is that GitHub/Microsoft already benefit from runaway network effects so it’s difficult to “do better”. Where will you get all of that training code if not off GitHub?
The real answer to this is to yank your projects from GitHub now while you search for alternatives.
- Narishma 5y agoEven if you do that, what's to stop them from using open source software from all over the web and not just what's on GitHub? The only way to stop them then is to go closed source.
- luffapi 5y agoI mean stop them at a larger level by threatening their success as an organization. If developers stop publishing to GitHub they have bigger problems than training ML models. Whether or not this move is “legal”, it should serve as a wake up call that GH is not actually a service we should be empowering. This incident is just one example of why that’s a bad idea.
- BlueTemplar 5y agoThey make you give up some of your monopoly rights when you put stuff on Github (some parts of those ToS might or might not be legal). You would have a much stronger case if they had taken your code from elsewhere.