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Hypothetically, if I wanted to learn how to code by studying open source examples on GitHub, should I have to go ask permission of each rightsholder to learn fr
by bobbruno 4y ago
Hypothetically, if I wanted to learn how to code by studying open source examples on GitHub, should I have to go ask permission of each rightsholder to learn from their code? I agree that, if Copilot is based on a model that overfits to output the exact same code it read, the lawsuit has merit (and Copilot is not really ML), but the idea of ML is that the model doesn’t memorize specific answers, it learns internal rules and higher-level representations that can output a valid result when given some input. Very much like me, the coder, would output valid code when given a use case description, after studying a lot of open source examples of that. Should most programmers just be paying rights to all publishers of code they have studied?
- ImPostingOnHN 4y ago> the idea of ML is that the model doesn’t memorize specific answers, it learns internal rules and higher-level representations that's the idea, yeah, and it would've been great if that's how copilot worked all the time as for the whataboutism, if developers copied copyrighted code, the rights holder has the right to go after them, too, if they so choose the rights holder could also choose to go after only big companies that violate licenses egregiously, if they so choose you know, common sense and nuance