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Mostly because developers (me included) don't like to be told we are being laid off due to AI that was trained on our free open-source hobby projects.

litver 3mo ago
how switching to an alternative like codeberg would prevent it? ti can be scraped as well
- _heimdall 3mo ago
  Quite a few commentors here mentioned using gitea or one of it's forks on a private tailnet. That would mean it isn't publicly available and can't be scraped.
  - tigerlily 3mo ago
    That's where it's all goin'. Private, outta sight. Keep the 'bots out, an' you keep the man out.
- littlecranky67 3mo ago
  But on GitHub, you agree explicitly that MS can use it. I would assume codeberg has any-scraping measures (not saying they are perfect, but better than knowing Microsoft can train with private repos).
- grayhatter 3mo ago
  It's a losing game to try to keep any FOSS code completely isolated from large scraping data sets. All you can do is never share it, or share it and eventually it'll get consumed by the machine. Spend your time making better software you and your friends can use... don't waste the time trying to stop others from making another painfully average codegen machine.
  - bluefirebrand 3mo ago
    Or just stop making FOSS code Starve the greedy beast
xpct 3mo ago
It sucks, but that ship has sailed. I'm not sure how they'll handle the issue of most new repos being AI generated, if they continue using new code for training. If the world accepts LLMs as a valid method for license washing, I don't see how I can fight it.
- nearlyepic 3mo ago
  > It sucks, but that ship has sailed. Hey, this attitude sucks. Would you tell this to someone who got beat up in an alley?
  - littlecranky67 3mo ago
    That is exactly what I would say. He got beat up, it is a fact and happened in the past. Unless you have a timemachine to undo it, nothing can make that undone. Now you can endulge in pain, anger, misery etc. - or you could get up, swallow the pain and look forward.
    - nearlyepic 3mo ago
      Genuinely disgusting that your first thought is therapy speak platitudes rather than holding someone accountable.

litver 3mo ago

how switching to an alternative like codeberg would prevent it? ti can be scraped as well

_heimdall 3mo ago
Quite a few commentors here mentioned using gitea or one of it's forks on a private tailnet. That would mean it isn't publicly available and can't be scraped.
- tigerlily 3mo ago
  That's where it's all goin'. Private, outta sight. Keep the 'bots out, an' you keep the man out.
littlecranky67 3mo ago
But on GitHub, you agree explicitly that MS can use it. I would assume codeberg has any-scraping measures (not saying they are perfect, but better than knowing Microsoft can train with private repos).
grayhatter 3mo ago
It's a losing game to try to keep any FOSS code completely isolated from large scraping data sets. All you can do is never share it, or share it and eventually it'll get consumed by the machine. Spend your time making better software you and your friends can use... don't waste the time trying to stop others from making another painfully average codegen machine.
- bluefirebrand 3mo ago
  Or just stop making FOSS code Starve the greedy beast

xpct 3mo ago

It sucks, but that ship has sailed. I'm not sure how they'll handle the issue of most new repos being AI generated, if they continue using new code for training. If the world accepts LLMs as a valid method for license washing, I don't see how I can fight it.

nearlyepic 3mo ago
> It sucks, but that ship has sailed. Hey, this attitude sucks. Would you tell this to someone who got beat up in an alley?
- littlecranky67 3mo ago
  That is exactly what I would say. He got beat up, it is a fact and happened in the past. Unless you have a timemachine to undo it, nothing can make that undone. Now you can endulge in pain, anger, misery etc. - or you could get up, swallow the pain and look forward.
  - nearlyepic 3mo ago
    Genuinely disgusting that your first thought is therapy speak platitudes rather than holding someone accountable.