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The FSF funded some white papers a while ago on CoPilot: https://www.fsf.org/news/publication-of-the-fsf-funded-white-papers-on-questions-around-copilot https:/
by ThrowawayR2 2y ago
The FSF funded some white papers a while ago on CoPilot: https://www.fsf.org/news/publication-of-the-fsf-funded-white-papers-on-questions-around-copilot https://www.fsf.org/news/publication-of-the-fsf-funded-white.... Take a look at the analysis by two academics versed in law at https://www.fsf.org/licensing/copilot/copyright-implications-of-the-use-of-code-repositories-to-train-a-machine-learning-model https://www.fsf.org/licensing/copilot/copyright-implications... starting with §II.B that explains why it might be legal.
Bradley Kuhn also has a differing opinion in another whitepaper there (https://www.fsf.org/licensing/copilot/if-software-is-my-copilot-who-programmed-my-software https://www.fsf.org/licensing/copilot/if-software-is-my-copi...) but then again he studied CS, not law. Nor has the FSF attempted AFAIK to file any suits even though they likely would have if it were an open and shut case.
- sitkack 2y agoAll of the most capable models I use have been clearly trained on the entirety of libgen/z-lib. You know it is the first thing they did, it is like 100TB. Some of the models are even coy about it.