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Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t... by pubby on Saturday July 03, 2021 @04:07PM (#27724466)
The issue isn't an AI reading copyrighted code, the issue is an AI regurgitating the lines of copyrighted code verbatim. To be clear, humans aren't allowed to do this either.

And sure, nobody cares about your stupid binary tree, but do they care about GNU and the Linux kernel? Imagine someone trained an AI to specifically output Linux code, and used it to reproduce a working OS. Is that fair?

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Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t... by 29athrowaway on Saturday July 03, 2021 @10:14PM (#27726787)
I think this is an important stepping stone towards automating some development tasks.

But the execution went wrong... They used raw data from repositories for training, without any kind of pre-processing.

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Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t... by PaulDavisThe1st on Saturday July 03, 2021 @05:25PM (#27725048)
> the issue is an AI regurgitating the lines of copyrighted code verbatim. To be clear, humans aren't allowed to do this either.

That's a little broad. There's a wide range of licenses for software that explicitly allow precisely this.

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Re:I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as t... by temac on Saturday July 03, 2021 @06:23PM (#27725438)
Tons of licences require at least attribution.
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