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They did train it on copyrighted work. The GPL is a license for copyrighted work. If it wasn't copyrighted, a license would be useless. The code being covered
by ziml77 4y ago
They did train it on copyrighted work. The GPL is a license for copyrighted work. If it wasn't copyrighted, a license would be useless.
The code being covered by copyright and the code being publicly accessible are two different things.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agoyou know what i mean... i am talking about training it on windows OS code and adobe photoshop source code and other "proprietary software" code
- tpmoney 4y agoBecause scraping a public website is different from breaking into adobes private source control servers?
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agothere is public DB of windows code out there, if "cant" is the word then let users submit the injest code and let it train on it. if "wont" is the word then who gave them the permission?
- ShamelessC 4y agoThe reason is that GitHub, being GitHub, has a lot of search indices and existing analytics on the code that is hosted on GitHub. It was easier, at least - but probably gives some nice guarantees about the statistics of "public" code, with the norms and conventions you're "used to", because you're used to the internet's coding norms. Company code can be pretty bad, even at Microsoft, often riddled with hyper-verbose variable names and strange design patterns.