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You say that like Github Copilot could have been trained in a different way. There's just too much utility and progress in Github Copilot to let this lawsuit wi
by baby 4y ago
You say that like Github Copilot could have been trained in a different way. There's just too much utility and progress in Github Copilot to let this lawsuit win.
- bee_rider 4y agoThat’s really up to everyone whose license may have been violated to determine. Personally I get zero utility from copilot (although, I only have a little code on GitHub so it isn’t a pressing issue). Signing up for disperse litigation like this seems like a pretty ballsy move by GitHub, but hey, Microsoft presumably has in-house lawyers with lots of spare time.
- jacquesm 4y agoThat's not how the law works.
- baby 4y agoThe law around copyrights is from a different era
- kllrnohj 4y agoWhy should Microsoft's ability to create a new revenue stream be more important than anyone else's ability to enforce their licensing terms?
- baby 4y agoYou’re saying this like users of github copilot are out of the eq
- sfifs 4y agoThe mafia used to steal dresses from New York garment factory delivery trucks and hawk them door to door in poorer neighbourhoods. The users (poorer households) definitely got value out of this by being able to obtain dresses they could not afford, but doesn't make a case for what the mafia was doing was right.
- baby 4y agoI feel pretty strongly that getting rid of copilot will slow down progress at a massive scale. Not only by affecting users who are getting a huge benefit from it, but by setting a precedence in how you can train AI
- kllrnohj 4y agoSo ignoring licenses is perfectly fine as long as you do it: a) at scale and b) make some other population happy In other words, piracy should be perfectly fine, too, right? After all there are a huge number of users who benefit from it?
- baby 4y agoI’d rephrase this as “open source is open source”
- hot_gril 4y agoCould have been trained with the code owners' consent, or at least warning.