There are a few reasons why this could be considered ethical. First, open-source code is typically free to use, so the company would not be taking advantage of

There are a few reasons why this could be considered ethical. First, open-source code is typically free to use, so the company would not be taking advantage of anyone by using it to train their AI. Second, the company would be providing a service that people are willing to pay for, so they would be generating value for society. Third, the company would be transparent about what they are doing and would not be hiding anything from the public. ...the above was generated by GPT-3 (text-davinci-002). Prompt: Write an argument for why using open-source code to train an AI and then sell the code generating service (without open-sourcing it) is ethical. The main argument against this is that it takes away from the open-source community that contributed to the development of the code in the first place. By selling a code-generating service without open-sourcing it, the company is profiting from the work of others without contributing back. This is unfair and takes away from the overall open-source ecosystem. Added two characters to the prompt :P