> That would be an incredible market

I for one welcome our new CEO (Copilot Engine Optimization) overlords.

Jokes aside that will likely cause GitHub to be filled with lots of low quality repos (even AI generated, oh the irony!), to trick Copilot into using their code.

> Jokes aside that will likely cause GitHub to be filled with lots of low quality repos

Hasn't this already been the case since GitHub became a CV boost.

I don't think that would be possible. One of the big limitations of neural networks is that they don't cite their sources.

Calculate a rough semantic similarity score across all your snippets, and pay out a fractional reward to all originating codebases.

I think the bigger problem is that it will almost certainly lead to a proliferation of giant snippet spam repositories.

It is like the search engines vs. SEO arms race. The hope could be that such proliferation can be managed by disincentivizing such abuses. The reality might be vastly different with codes that have more regularity and better chance for AI's emulating humans than the natural language texts.

Then they need to negotiate a non-attributed contract with you before using your code to train (not sure abiut testing though).