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They intentionally opted in to sharing their work with you in a certain way. If someone copy pasted stack overflow answers and made them into a book, which they
by wyager 4y ago
They intentionally opted in to sharing their work with you in a certain way. If someone copy pasted stack overflow answers and made them into a book, which they sold for money, that would be wrong.
- johnfn 4y agoOK... but it's totally possible to use Github repo code as a learning resource too, and I've done this often.
- IshKebab 4y agoPeople do do that. But I think that's a bit different because they add very little extra value. It doesn't take any effort. Why should I give them money? Copilot is different - it clearly takes a lot of skill and effort to turn a bunch of GitHub repos into a fancy autocomplete system.
- flawn 4y agoit's using GPT-3 and, mhm, I guess everyone having proprietary access at GitHub's resources and computing power would be able to get this running.