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The model itself would probably be considered a transformative work, and Microsoft likely has a broad license to do whatever they want with code hosted on GitHu
by jpollock 4y ago
The model itself would probably be considered a transformative work, and Microsoft likely has a broad license to do whatever they want with code hosted on GitHub.
However, there is a reason the CoPilot instructions say that users shouldn't trust the results.
"These include [...] IP scanning"
We will learn from the trial whether or not it is possible to wash away copyright by sending it through an opaque, lossy, compression algorithm. If it turns out that people are free to use a model trained on _any_ source code it finds regardless of license?
Zowie, that would be a bigger change to the industry than if Oracle had won.
- ignoramous 4y agoI believe, Google was asleep at the wheel. If you go back to last decade, copyright claims didn't stop Google from acquiring Android and YouTube. Besides, a few days ago some in the media claimed that Google is already working on a Copilot competitor. Copyright and license infringement is a valid claim, but personally, I feel it'd be a shame if AI couldn't be trained on publicly available sources (or Google Search couldn't index publicly available websites, or Google Maps couldn't map the world, etc).