Re:GitHub Copilot investigation
by janef0421 on Monday October 17, 2022 @07:58PM
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The people protesting aren't a "vocal few"; We're the people who made copilot possible. We are frustrated that our work is being used to profit a massive corporation without any compensation and in a way that we at best did not intend to allow and at worst is in direct violation of the terms we set.
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Perhaps a good compromise is to make it opt-out, if it’s not already. Though even this is just pandering to the developer’s ego. AI writing code is a massive boost in giving users power and thus freedom. Of course, we need to make AI itself FOSS, but I doubt a legal case could be made for that. A more productive path is to clone the model like SD did with Dall-e.
Re:GitHub Copilot investigation
by concordDance on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:17AM
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Nah, you're definitely the few. Its not a random sample, but an informal survey of my coworkers found no one who would care and generally positive sentiment.
The people who comment on something are disproportionately those who care a great deal.
My point was not that those critical of CoPilot are in a majority, it is that our perspective is important because our labour is what makes copilot possible.
our labour is what makes copilot possible
What proportion of its capability is derived from the labor of people who don't like it? I get your point about feeling like an unwilling contributor while github/MS harvests revenue from people who like it. But there's an implication here of being in a critical majority, which I am not convinced is the case.