This extends so much further than just GitHub and open source. Almost all “AI” based generative tools are trained on public datasets, in some cases they have li

This extends so much further than just GitHub and open source. Almost all “AI” based generative tools are trained on public datasets, in some cases they have licensed these datasets, but my understanding is that they are often just trained on the “public” internet. There is currently clear legal protection of scraping, however you can’t “republish” that data, only significant derivative work. I don’t know if these tools fall into that category - IANAL - but that’s the billion dollar question. The text/language and image generation are all capable of outputting results that are clearly based on particular input imagery. This is such an important debate to have and my fear is that the companies investing in this tech have deep pockets, the lobbying around it could result in a unbalanced outcome. This isn’t really an area where “move fast and break things” is necessarily the right process. Exciting though to see where this technology could lead, co-pilot blows my mind at times.