Re:Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code?
by account42 on Friday June 24, 2022 @05:05AM
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I'd be all for returning ALL code to the commons.
Except that is not what is happening here. The problem is that AI is being used to take code, which was provided to the commons under the explicit condition that anything built with it is also released under the same terms, is now being fed to a magic mystery machine to produce code that can supposedly legally be witheld from the comments. The only code that this affects is the one that was already shared - you won't see Microsoft feeding Windows and Office source code into Copilot anytime soon.
Except that is not what is happening here. The problem is that AI is being used to take code, which was provided to the commons under the explicit condition that anything built with it is also released under the same terms, is now being fed to a magic mystery machine to produce code that can supposedly legally be witheld from the comments. The only code that this affects is the one that was already shared - you won't see Microsoft feeding Windows and Office source code into Copilot anytime soon.