Re:GitHub Copilot investigation
by solidasparagus on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:09AM
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But that part of the argument is far more nebulous and bullshitty than the copyright argument. The idea that copilot is killing any substantial open-source project just isn't true right now. Copilot doesn't generate libraries worth of functionality, it generates small functions or less. Open-source projects remain as important as they were before copilot.
I feel like the title of the article is literally written for you: """Maybe you don’t mind if GitHub Copilot used your open-source code without asking. But how will you feel if Copilot erases your open-source community?"""
If you want to keep having useful tools based on open source code in the future, it is in your interest that people still want to write open source code. It is still too early to say how much of a chilling effect projects like Copilot will have on that. But clearly many (just read this comment section, myself included) are having second thoughts.