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> If you don't like it, you are free to host your code on your own servers. From the article: > “Dude, it’s cool. I took SFC’s advice and moved my code off Gi
by akprasad 4y ago
> If you don't like it, you are free to host your code on your own servers.
From the article:
> “Dude, it’s cool. I took SFC’s advice and moved my code off GitHub.” So did I. Guess what? It doesn’t matter. By claiming that AI training is fair use, Microsoft is constructing a justification for training on public code anywhere on the internet, not just GitHub.
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> when it comes for their own field, they are suddenly very worried
From the article:
> First, the objection here is not to AI-assisted coding tools generally, but to Microsoft’s specific choices with Copilot. We can easily imagine a version of Copilot that’s friendlier to open-source developers—for instance, where participation is voluntary, or where coders are paid to contribute to the training corpus. Despite its professed love for open source, Microsoft chose none of these options. Second, if you find Copilot valuable, it’s largely because of the quality of the underlying open-source training data. As Copilot sucks the life from open-source projects, the proximate effect will be to make Copilot ever worse—a spiraling ouroboros of garbage code.
- gjsman-1000 4y ago> As Copilot sucks the life from open-source projects, the proximate effect will be to make Copilot ever worse—a spiraling ouroboros of garbage code. If I was writing this website, I would delete this sentence, because it is actually really idiotic. 1. This is an opinionated statement, except that there's nothing backing this opinion. This is fearmongering, that GitHub Copilot will get worse unless we sue Microsoft. 2. Lawsuits are not about concerns about a product's creator potentially damaging their own product. Lawyers suing Microsoft don't get a "we're protecting Microsoft from Microsoft's own bad decisions!" The argument, completely unfounded, is that GitHub Copilot will undermine... GitHub Copilot. So, if you like GitHub Copilot, you should also be on board with suing Microsoft, so that we don't damage GitHub Copilot. What??? Good luck proving that line of argument in a court - you'd get laughed out of the room. Courts don't react well to hazy predictions about mayhem, from the suing lawyers, that have no historical facts to base them on.