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Ok. So instead of whining about it on Twitter sue GitHub. No matter what you think of Copilot, establishing some case law on AI-generated code will be beneficia
by ralph84 4y ago
Ok. So instead of whining about it on Twitter sue GitHub. No matter what you think of Copilot, establishing some case law on AI-generated code will be beneficial to everyone.
- mjr00 4y agoWhining about it on Twitter = free and easy Suing Github = signing up for a ~decade long incredibly expensive and time-consuming legal battle against one of the richest companies in the world There may be a slight difference in effort between these two options.
- anonydsfsfs 4y agoNot to mention Microsoft could countersue using their enormous patent war chest, which they have a history of doing[0] [0] https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/22/microsoft-and-tivo-drop-their-patent-lawsuits-against-each-other/ https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/22/microsoft-and-tivo-drop-th...
- ghaff 4y agoIt goes beyond code. Also photos, art, text, etc. Be careful what you wish for. Whether you like it or not, with a stroke of a pen Congress or the Supreme Court in the US could probably wipe out the legal use of a huge amount of the training data used for ML.
- adastra22 4y agoGood.
- Jevon23 4y agoGood! Large corporations shouldn’t be able to profit off of other people’s data without consent or compensation.
- drstewart 4y agoGreat! I assume you believe all search engines should be illegal then?
- ghoward 4y agoSearch engines don't sell the information of others; they sell certain metadata of that information, namely, the location of that information.
- ghaff 4y agoAnd excerpts of that information in many cases.
- belorn 4y agoAccessing a computer system without permission is illegal. Search engines operate under the assumption that they have permission to access any public available server unless explicitly forbidden. If a company or person assume they got copyright permission to any work public accessible then they will quickly find out that such assumption is wrong, and that they require explicit permission.
- ghaff 4y ago>Search engines operate under the assumption that they have permission to access any public available server unless explicitly forbidden. And why should opt-out be a reasonable norm? To be clear, the internet (among many other things) breaks down if every exchange of information is opt-in. Sharing of photographs taken in public places is another example. But the internet basically functions because people share information on an opt-out basis (that may or may not even be respected).
- SrslyJosh 4y agoYou're going to chip in, right? And help fundraise? Because it would take millions of dollars to mount a successful legal attack over this.