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This is a really good point that I hadn't considered before. It's facebook all over again — selling your own content back to you. Repo owners should be at least
by kemiller 4y ago
This is a really good point that I hadn't considered before. It's facebook all over again — selling your own content back to you. Repo owners should be at least compensated when their code gets used. That would be an incredible market.
- selcuka 4y ago> That would be an incredible market I for one welcome our new CEO (Copilot Engine Optimization) overlords. Jokes aside that will likely cause GitHub to be filled with lots of low quality repos (even AI generated, oh the irony!), to trick Copilot into using their code.
- account42 4y ago> Jokes aside that will likely cause GitHub to be filled with lots of low quality repos Hasn't this already been the case since GitHub became a CV boost.
- leereeves 4y agoI don't think that would be possible. One of the big limitations of neural networks is that they don't cite their sources.
- radus 4y agoCalculate a rough semantic similarity score across all your snippets, and pay out a fractional reward to all originating codebases. I think the bigger problem is that it will almost certainly lead to a proliferation of giant snippet spam repositories.
- nemonemo 4y agoIt is like the search engines vs. SEO arms race. The hope could be that such proliferation can be managed by disincentivizing such abuses. The reality might be vastly different with codes that have more regularity and better chance for AI's emulating humans than the natural language texts.
- woleium 4y agoThen they need to negotiate a non-attributed contract with you before using your code to train (not sure abiut testing though).