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Regardless of whether it's fair use, copilot wouldn't be possible without the enormous amount of person-hours of work that has gone into writing the code it was
by 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y ago
Regardless of whether it's fair use, copilot wouldn't be possible without the enormous amount of person-hours of work that has gone into writing the code it was trained on. There should be some kind of compensation for the content creators when their work is used to train models. The fair use argument is that "I could see it" is enough to justify no compensation and no say in how their work is used.
Legal? Probably. Should we do better? Probably.
At the very least, it should be opt-in. We'll probably need new IP law to make this kind of thing opt-in.