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Re:Ask HN: What can I personally do to fight AGAINST the Cop... by ohashi on Friday November 04, 2022 @12:18AM (#33462144)
From an end user perspective, CoPilot has made my coding life dramatically better than any other tool I think I've ever used. The next closest being a good IDE which added code completion, documentation for functions, etc.

What it's functionally doing is incredibly valuable and I want to see it succeed. Figuring out how to navigate licensing effectively is an important step, but as someone who writes open source, I am happy my code is helping potentially make other people's code better too.

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Re:Ask HN: What can I personally do to fight AGAINST the Cop... by ogarten on Friday November 04, 2022 @01:46AM (#33462662)
The problem is, that it's not only open source but also private repositories on GitHub which aren't open source and might never be.
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Re:Ask HN: What can I personally do to fight AGAINST the Cop... by throwaway675309 on Friday November 04, 2022 @02:11AM (#33462790)
That's not their stated position, obviously it's hard to verify but from there official stance:

"GitHub Copilot is powered by OpenAI Codex, a new AI system created by OpenAI. It has been trained on a selection of English language and source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub."

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Re:Ask HN: What can I personally do to fight AGAINST the Cop... by BerislavLopac on Friday November 04, 2022 @02:59AM (#33463055)
A repository being public does not mean that it's open source.
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