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Re:GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion by jakelazaroff on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @06:21PM (#33254828)
The benefit is that our collective genius isn’t mined by mega corps and rented back to us. That we exist as more than mindless resources to be tapped for profit.
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Re:GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion by Ajedi32 on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @09:38AM (#33261943)
> The benefit is that our collective genius isn’t mined by mega corps and rented back to us.

That sounds like a downside to me, not a benefit. You're basically arguing Copilot, Stable Diffusion, GPT-3, etc (which were all trained on copyrighted works) not existing would be a better situation than them existing. I'm just not seeing that.

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