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GitHub Users File a Class-Action Lawsuit for Training an AI Tool with Their Code

• stevenalowe 4y ago
  >Codex was trained on “millions of public repositories” if people can learn from your code, so can AIs
  • breakingcups 4y ago
    If people aren't allowed to copy that code into their own commercial programs, neither can AIs..
    • dicroce 4y ago
      people taking short segments of code that are implementations of common algorithms and claiming those as "copied" by copilot are wrong. it didn't copy, it learned and wrote.
      • hnaccy 4y ago
        there's multiple examples of it outputting non-trivial code that is identical up to and including comment strings If microsoft wants a code AI they're free to create their own training data set instead laundering copyright violation of anything that's touched github. It being "hard" isn't an excuse.
  • why_is_it_good 4y ago
    If people can learn from your face, so can cameras. It's not so simple.
    • oneoff786 4y ago
      Cameras are generally legal to use to record faces though?
      • Oxidation 4y ago
        Publishing or selling the photo can get tricky, though, and that's why model releases exist.
        • oneoff786 4y ago
          That’s the difference between copying and learning though
• footlose_3815 4y ago
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• Nginx487 4y ago
  If there's no specific restriction in the license agreement, AI can use your code to study. If you don't like it, close your repo. End of story. Examples of "copied code" provided are pathetic. It's like acquisition of stealing `i` variable from `for` cycle.