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HackerNews: Can no longer view the frontpage without seeing a complaint about a free and ad-free service not being provided to users who are not logged in.
by amadeuspagel 3y ago
HackerNews: Can no longer view the frontpage without seeing a complaint about a free and ad-free service not being provided to users who are not logged in.
- mattstir 3y agoIf it's free, then you are the product. That's an adage that holds true in most cases, and in this case, your code is being used to train Copilot, among other things. Even if that weren't the case though, and the service really was as benevolent as you seem to believe it is, would you be sitting there clapping as the service gets worse for a decent subset of users? Is that exciting and interesting to you?
- xign 3y agoEven if your open source code is on GitLab they can still be used to train Copilot. Most permissive license allows you to train AI models using them. Any license that forbids AI training would not be considered "open source" under most definitions. Being on GitHub just makes it easier for them as they don't need to manually clone it from a different service.
- tentacleuno 3y agoDo you have any references for this claim? I browse HN pretty much everyday, and "I can't do X without logging in" doesn't seem to be a popular type of post. The only example I can think of is Reddit's API changes, which were a while ago and loosely related to logging in.