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Good bye and good riddance. Even just the idea that GitHub should be allowed to train their proprietary AI on other people's work is insane. Much less distribut
by nmilo 4y ago
Good bye and good riddance. Even just the idea that GitHub should be allowed to train their proprietary AI on other people's work is insane. Much less distribute that AI in a paid package which lets you spit out other people's code verbatim. Anyone who supports open-source and the (ab)use of copyright law to create free works should be vehemently opposed to Copilot.
- wilsonnb3 4y ago> Even just the idea that GitHub should be allowed to train their proprietary AI on other people's work is insane. You explicitly agree to this when you upload code to GitHub. FOSS folks shouldn’t have sold their soul to the proprietary devil but they did and now they have to deal with it.
- remram 4y agoThe fact that it's the first major development to be started at GitHub after their acquisition by Microsoft is such a hit too. Way to spend their social capital. I can't imagine the money they made from Copilot subscriptions was worth it since companies have certainly stayed away from this...