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> This is a new area of development, and we’re all learning. I’m personally spending a lot of time chatting with developers, copyright experts, and community st
by mahogany 4y ago
> This is a new area of development, and we’re all learning. I’m personally spending a lot of time chatting with developers, copyright experts, and community stakeholders to understand the most responsible way to leverage LLMs.
Given that there have been major concerns about copyright infringements and license violations since the announcement of Copilot, wouldn't it have been better to do some more of this "learning", and determine what responsibilities may be expected of you by the broader community, before unleashing the product into the wild? For example, why not train it on opt-in repositories for a few years first, and iron out the kinks?
- throwaway1851 4y ago> why not train it on opt-in repositories for a few years first, and iron out the kinks? Ha ha. Because then the product couldn’t be built. Better to steal now and ask forgiveness later, or better yet, deny the theft ever occurred.
- codalan 4y agoIf Copilot was designed with any ethics in mind, it would have been an opt-in model. Instead, they scoured and plagiarized everyone's source code without their consent.
- ovi256 4y agoBecause the ethical opt-in model builders are still working on putting together their cleanly sourced dataset.
- concordDance 4y agoCopyright infringement is not theft in the most important sense that matters. Theft is normally negative sum, copyright infringement is almost always positive sum.
- tauwauwau 4y agoHad to find this after a long time IT Crowd Piracy Warning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg
- LtWorf 4y agoAnd why not train it on microsoft windows and office code?
- robertlagrant 4y agoThat is a rather good question.
- megous 4y agoBecause then your Re4ct code would look like this: export default class USERCOMPONENT extends REACTCOMPONENT<IUSER, {}> { constructor (oProps: IUSER){ super(oProps); } render() { return ( <div> <h1>User Component</h1> Hello, <b>{This.oProps.sName}</b> <br/> You are <b>{This.oProps.dwAge} years old</b> <br/> You live at: <b>{This.oProps.sAddress}</b> <br/> You were born: <b>{This.oProps.oDoB.ToDateString()}</b> </div> ); } }
- dustedcodes 4y agoEasy pal, we don't want to multiply that shyte.
- xfer 4y agoExactly, it would actually benefit many C/C++ programmers. Some components of NT are very high quality, why not wash their license if the aim is to empower the programmers and also make some profit?
- logifail 4y ago> And why not train it on microsoft windows and office code? As a thought experiment, if one were to train a model on purely leaked and/or stolen source code, would the use of model step effectively "launder" the code and make later partial reuse legit?
- LtWorf 4y agoOnly if it's not microsoft's leaked code, I guess :)