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Re:We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot by bpodgursky on Thursday November 03, 2022 @04:58PM (#33457428)
Lawyers want $$$$.
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Re:We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot by RamblingCTO on Thursday November 03, 2022 @05:01PM (#33457475)
Yeah I guess so. This website reads like bullshit bingo from some weird twitter dude trying to sell you his newest product:

"AI needs to be fair & eth­i­cal for every­one. If it’s not, then it can never achieve its vaunted aims of ele­vat­ing human­ity. It will just become another way for the priv­i­leged few to profit from the work of the many."

Blah blah. Can we get back to the hacking on stuff mentality?

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Re:We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot by gcmrtc on Thursday November 03, 2022 @05:23PM (#33457842)
Looks like that lawyer guy is not new on hacking stuff: https://matthewbutterick.com/

Not exactly the curriculum of a twitter weirdo.

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Re:We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot by RamblingCTO on Thursday November 03, 2022 @06:16PM (#33458617)
Hah, funny. I've used Pollen before and think I've had contact with him a few years ago! The blah blah about AI elevating the world is still bs imho. I still disagree with his views (https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/this-copilot-is-stupid-an...) and this law suit.

I wasn't actually talking about him specifically btw when saying "this sounds like a crypto bro from twitter". The overly enthusiastic AI talk reminded me of that, that's what I wanted to say.

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