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That's the moral aspect of the problem. First thing that I am concerned is that the search engines will be flooded by the bots creating ai content and engines w
by system2 4y ago
That's the moral aspect of the problem. First thing that I am concerned is that the search engines will be flooded by the bots creating ai content and engines won't have a way to identify it.
- jacquesm 4y agoSure, but that's not a copyright issue, that's just the problem of the web in general: by measuring something (ranking the importance of a page) you've introduced an element that can be gamed and whatever means people can use to game it they will use. But copyright is an entirely different kettle of fish and it is very well possible that Microsoft/GitHub will be able to do an end run around copyright but I don't think they've really thought through what the consequences of that will be. Essentially they are saying 'if you have access to a bunch of source code you are free to slap new terms and conditions on the hosting of that code and then you can use it to train your models, even without active consent of the copyright holders'. In that world Microsoft stands a lot to lose. Much more than your average GitHub repository owner. So this was a terrible mistake on their part.