News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

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

Re:Ask HN: What can I personally do to fight AGAINST the Cop... by throwaway675309 on Friday November 04, 2022 @02:13AM (#33462804)
Completely disagree. I think that the output that it produces is sufficiently transformative to be considered fair use, and even when people coerce it to produce code verbatim - it represents a fraction of the original code base.

It would be like if J. K. Rowling went to war over the fact that I lifted a few paragraphs from Harry Potter and used them in an entirely different book.

Also this is entirely anecdata, but at my company I'd say we have about a dozen other engineers actively using copilot and not a single one of them has an issue with it. (ideological or otherwise)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: What can I personally do to fight AGAINST the Cop... by visarga on Friday November 04, 2022 @01:38PM (#33470720)
I think people opposing Copilot are overly reactive, saying they fight for open source but actively trying to stop "Opener Source". Because Copilot is that - even more open than open source. So open that even open source people are angry. It learns skills and then makes them available to everyone. The gall!
[ Parent | on HN ]