While I think that would probably get around the copyright infringement issues, it still bothers me. I don't like the idea that a corporation can hoover up cou

While I think that would probably get around the copyright infringement issues, it still bothers me. I don't like the idea that a corporation can hoover up countless open source code and contributions (including mine), and then use that to make money selling code generation assistance to other people, even if the output of that code generation would be different enough to any specific copyrighted block of code such that it couldn't result in a copyright infringement claim. It's not even clear that we can stop this from happening; it's certainly possible that a "GPLv4" that had a provision against using covered code for LLM trailing would be legally (if not just practically) unenforceable. To me, the ickiest part is centralization. While models and training tools will probably (maybe?) get cheaper over time, building and operating something like Copilot requires a lot of money and resources. Do we really want these capabilities to be locked up inside big, well-capitalized corporations? For me, the answer to that is a resounding hell no.