GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code

Re:GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copy... by lucideer on Sunday October 16, 2022 @06:39PM (#33227810)

I don't know specifically what DALL-E was trained on, but if it's art for which the artists' have not consented to it being used to train AI then that's problematic. I haven't seen any objections to DALL-E on that basis specifically though, whereas all the discussion of Copilot is around the fact that code authorship & Github accounts are not intrinsically tied together, making it impossible to have code authors consent to their code being used, regardless of what ToS someone's agreed to.

> For myself, I am skeptical of intellectual property in the first place. I say go for it.

I'm in a similar boat but this is precisely the reason I object so strongly to Copilot. IP has been invented & perpetuated/extended to protect large corporate interests, under the guise of protecting & sustaining innovators & creative individuals. Copilot is a perfect example of large corporate interest ignoring IP when it suits them to exploit individuals.

In other words: the reason I'm skeptical of IP is the same reason I'm skeptical of Copilot.

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Re:GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copy... by __alexs on Sunday October 16, 2022 @06:54PM (#33227908)

Stable Diffusion and DallE were both trained on copyrighted content scraped from the internet with no consent from the publishers.

It's quite a common complaint because some of the most popular prompts involve just appending an artist's name to something to get it to copy their style.

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