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GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code

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Re: GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code

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Post by an1sotropy »

This is a huge and looming legal problem. I wonder if what should be a big uproar about it is muted by the widespread acceptance/approval of github and related products, in which case its a nice example of how monopolies damage communities.

Re: GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code

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Post by davidgerard »

colesantiago wrote: post #2

Github Copilot is not AI at all, it is just a dumb code regurgitator that just sells you code you wrote on GitHub and takes all the credit for it shamelessly.

it's totally AI, in the "legal responsibility laundering" sense. This is the main present day use case for saying "AI".

Re: GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code

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Post by acoustics »

I’ve noticed that people tend to disapprove of AI trained on their profession’s data, but are usually indifferent or positive about other applications of AI.

For example, I know artists who are vehemently against DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, etc. and regard it as stealing, but they view Copilot and GPT-3 as merely useful tools. I also know software devs who are extremely excited about AI art and GPT-3 but are outraged by Copilot.

For myself, I am skeptical of intellectual property in the first place. I say go for it.

Re: GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code

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Post by faeriechangling »

Not your repo, not your code.

I celebrate Microsofts shameless plundering of Github to create new products that increase productivity. The incredible thing is that people trusted Microsoft to use their code on their terms to begin with. This is a company who has been finding ways to make open source code into a proprietary product since the 90s.

Nobody can stop people from replicating what Microsoft did in the long run anyways. Eventually any consumer with enough access to source code will be able to make their own copilot. Even if copilot is criminalised Microsoft can just sell access to the entire GitHub dataset and let other people commit the "crime". Then you're right back where we started with having to sue the end users of copilot for infringement instead of Microsoft.

Use private repos or face the inevitability that copilot-like products will scrape your code.

Re: GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code

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Post by ChildOfChaos »

acoustics wrote: post #6

I’ve noticed that people tend to disapprove of AI trained on their profession’s data, but are usually indifferent or positive about other applications of AI. For example, I know artists who are vehemently against DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, etc. and regard it as stealing, but they view Copilot and GPT-3 as merely useful tools. I also know software devs who are extremely excited about AI art and GPT-3 but are outraged b…

I think sadly it's just people being protective, the technology is interesting so if it doesn't hit their line of work, it's fantastic, if it does, then it's terrible.

There is no arguing against it though, you can't stop it, all this stuff is coming eventually to all of these areas, might as well try and find ways to use the oppurutinies while you can while some of this is still new.

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