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A comment on Ask HN: What can I personally do to fight AGAINST the Copilot class action?.

Re:Ask HN: What can I personally do to fight AGAINST the Cop... by smoldesu on Thursday November 03, 2022 @08:04PM (#33459790)
Buy a 10tb disk on Amazon for ~$300, start backing up every git repo in existence
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Re:Ask HN: What can I personally do to fight AGAINST the Cop... by jasonladuke0311 on Thursday November 03, 2022 @08:31PM (#33460068)
Even with a shallow clone, I'm curious what percentage of repos this would hold.
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Re:Ask HN: What can I personally do to fight AGAINST the Cop... by smoldesu on Thursday November 03, 2022 @08:41PM (#33460157)
The Stack is ~3tb: https://huggingface.co/datasets/bigcode/the-stack

If you had 10tb worth of decently written code, you could probably train a competitive model.

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