Does free software benefit from ML models being derived works of training data?

Re:Does free software benefit from ML models being derived w... by CogitoCogito on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @04:22AM (#27818670)

If Microsoft truly believes they are in the right, they should publicly (and legally) state that _Microsoft_ (and not he users of copilot) takes on all responsibility for potential future copyright infringement cases against the users of copilot. If they don't do that, it's hard to take any of their claims seriously.

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Re:Does free software benefit from ML models being derived w... by d4rti on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @06:46AM (#27819489)

Or train the model on their own proprietary code base too?

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Re:Does free software benefit from ML models being derived w... by CogitoCogito on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @09:31AM (#27820703)

At a minimum they should do that, but that's honestly not good enough. They could decide not to sue a user of copilot if it produced MS code regardless of whether copilot produces infringing code in general. An indemnification for the customer in case of third-parties suing them over code produced by copilot is honestly the only way I could take Microsoft's position seriously.

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