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the lawsuit against github/microsoft scraping the entire internet for code wins and kills the practice entirely there, that was easy to imagine
by blibble 4y ago
the lawsuit against github/microsoft scraping the entire internet for code wins and kills the practice entirely
there, that was easy to imagine
- kaesar14 4y agoAnother tool will just take it's place. It's too useful
- blibble 4y agoif fair use doesn't apply to training... what would it be trained on? Microsoft's code base? who the hell would pay for that?
- lagrange77 4y agoRight, trashy ads would randomly pop up in your program.
- tcmart14 4y agoOr heaven for bid the AI decides to add one of Microsoft's famous "please wait while we try to fix the problem" dialogs in your project. Especially since I am pretty sure that code looks something like this at a high level double sleep = random time between now and heat death of the universe thread.sleep(sleep) throw prompt that problem couldn't be solved
- NoZZz 4y agoThere were ads for payed sample code work a while back... so, I guess at least some players are sourcing royalty free stuff.
- MrDresden 4y agoThis will linger in the courts for years if not a decade, all the while the tech and industry will move on. Think Oracle vs Google case involving Java on Android. Was finally settled but didn't have any impact. And if it sinks one model, there will be others. Like has been said, the genie is out of the bottle.