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#3Did GitHub ever respond to the concerns about CoPilot? Specifically whether they trained it on private repos or GPL?
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#4Did GitHub ever respond to the concerns about CoPilot? Specifically whether they trained it on private repos or GPL?
It was trained on all public repos, and only public repos. They did not pay attention to licensing.
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#5Did GitHub ever respond to the concerns about CoPilot? Specifically whether they trained it on private repos or GPL?
copilot is just a prototype. imagine in 10-20 years, software engineers as we know it will be obsolete.
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#6Did GitHub ever respond to the concerns about CoPilot? Specifically whether they trained it on private repos or GPL?
It was trained on all public repos, and only public repos. They did not pay attention to licensing.
Wow, that's crazy. Do we have something official that says as much?
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#7Could they use the blurb of text at the top to give me like... a noun to describe what this is? It just says some vagueness about the future and investigating and exploring.
Is it a conference? A team? An initiative? How does it work?
Whatever this is supposed to be selling me on, they're doing a terrible job because I can't figure out what it is!
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#9Did GitHub ever respond to the concerns about CoPilot? Specifically whether they trained it on private repos or GPL?
That's such a vague and novel area, that I don't think lawyers will recommend/allow commenting on it unless required by court of law.
There is no precedent on if a computer reading your code or looking at the image is fair-use or not.
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#10Did GitHub ever respond to the concerns about CoPilot? Specifically whether they trained it on private repos or GPL?
That's such a vague and novel area, that I don't think lawyers will recommend/allow commenting on it unless required by court of law. There is no precedent on if a computer reading your code or looking at the image is fair-use or not.
why not train it on copyright material also? whats the prima-facie reason for not doing so? i mean if you are doing "all public repos", why not everything else?