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Re:GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion by oefrha on Monday October 17, 2022 @11:38PM (#33242690)
They should at least try to understand how it’s actually used, not imagining how it’s simply used to steal their largely replaceable code.
Re:GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion by xigoi on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @01:05AM (#33243176)
It doesn't matter how it's used. Do you think Microsoft would be happy with someone training a model on Windows source code, as long as they didn't use it to reproduce the code?
Re:GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion by sangnoir on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @02:44AM (#33243786)
If Microsoft were confident Copilot doesn't produce infringing code, they would have included the Windows and Office codebases in the training data. I wonder what will come out of discovery
Re:GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion by manmal on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @03:14AM (#33244005)
You think MS‘ code quality is high enough to train an AI on?
Re:GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion by AlexandrB on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:59AM (#33249432)
Do you think they audited every open source code base that was used in training for quality?
Re:GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion by batmanturkey on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @06:31AM (#33245264)
“Their largely replaceable code”

Smells like: “ I stole this lousy apple that wasn’t any good” Then why did you steal it?

Put your money where your mouth is, Microsoft, train copilot on your own code!!!

Don’t wanna train it with windows 11 code? Prefer to hijack others projects and use their for your needs and then pretend thst insulting others and calling their code worthless will get you off the hook????

Backfire

Re:GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion by woah on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:58PM (#33267858)
> Smells like: “ I stole this lousy apple that wasn’t any good” Then why did you steal it?

The lousy code trained copilot in what a switch statement looks like so it can autocomplete mine for me