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Re:Tool to convert copyrighted music into fair use by Hamuko on Saturday July 10, 2021 @06:04PM (#27796791)
>what the training dataset is

All non-private repositories on GitHub.

Re:Tool to convert copyrighted music into fair use by brutal_chaos_ on Saturday July 10, 2021 @06:29PM (#27796931)
Is it though? I'd assume that too, but we don't really know, do we? I mean to ask, what have Microsoft stated that leads you to believe this? (Maybe there's a press release I missed?)
Re:Tool to convert copyrighted music into fair use by teraflop on Saturday July 10, 2021 @06:31PM (#27796942)
Re:Tool to convert copyrighted music into fair use by ben0x539 on Saturday July 10, 2021 @07:04PM (#27797098)
(this doesn't say they didn't use other sources too, though)
Re:Tool to convert copyrighted music into fair use by tyingq on Saturday July 10, 2021 @09:13PM (#27797736)
"source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub." (from the copilot home page)

Pretty much says they did also use other sources.