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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 mjr00 »

Same issue with Stable Diffusion/NovelAI and certain people's artwork (eg Greg Rutkowski) being obviously used as part of the training set. More noticeable in Copilot since the output needs to be a lot more precise.

Lawmakers need to jump on this stuff ASAP. Some say that it's no different from a person looking at existing code or art and recreating it from memory or using it as inspiration. But the law changes when technology gets involved already, anyway. There's no law against you and I having a conversation, but I may not be able to record it depending on the jurisdiction. Similarly, there's no law against you looking at artwork that I post online, but it's not out of question that a law could exist preventing you from using it as part of an ML training dataset.

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

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Post by mjr00 »

ralph84 wrote: post #9

Ok. So instead of whining about it on Twitter sue GitHub. No matter what you think of Copilot, establishing some case law on AI-generated code will be beneficial to everyone.

Whining about it on Twitter = free and easy

Suing Github = signing up for a ~decade long incredibly expensive and time-consuming legal battle against one of the richest companies in the world

There may be a slight difference in effort between these two options.

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

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Post by machinekob »

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'm pretty sure DALL-E was trained only on not copyright material ( they say so :| ).

But to be honest if your code is open source im pretty sure Microsoft don't care about licence they'll just use it cause "reasons" same about stable diffusion they don't give a fuk about data if its in internet they'll use it so its topic that probably will be regulated in few years.

Until then lets hope they'll get milked (both Microsoft and NovelAI) for illegal content usage and I srsly hope at least few layers will try milking it asap especially NovelAI which illegally usage a lot of copyrighted art in the training data.

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

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Post by kurtoid »

res0nat0r wrote: post #10

The repo he linked to on twitter is a public repo though. Am I missing something? https://twitter.com/DocSparse/status/1581462433335762944

I think they're more concerned about it repeating code w/o ownership/copyright labels

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

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Post by tpxl »

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…

When Joe Rando plays a song from 1640 on a violin he gets a copyright claim on Youtube. When Jane Rando uses devtools to check a website source code she gets sued.

When Microsoft steals all code on their platform and sells it, they get lauded. When "Open" AI steals thousands of copyrighted images and sells them, they get lauded.

I am skeptical of imaginary property myself, but fuck this one set of rules for the poor, another set of rules for the masses.

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

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Post by ghaff »

ralph84 wrote: post #9

Ok. So instead of whining about it on Twitter sue GitHub. No matter what you think of Copilot, establishing some case law on AI-generated code will be beneficial to everyone.

It goes beyond code. Also photos, art, text, etc. Be careful what you wish for. Whether you like it or not, with a stroke of a pen Congress or the Supreme Court in the US could probably wipe out the legal use of a huge amount of the training data used for ML.

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

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Post by taspeotis »

res0nat0r wrote: post #10

The repo he linked to on twitter is a public repo though. Am I missing something? https://twitter.com/DocSparse/status/1581462433335762944

> The repo he linked to on twitter is a public repo though. Am I missing something?

I dunno the title says it used public code when it was meant to block public code.

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