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GitHub Users Want to Sue Microsoft For Training an AI Tool With Their Code

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GitHub Users Want to Sue Microsoft For Training an AI Tool With Their Code

@kixik@lemmy.ml to Libre Software@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago

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“Copilot” was trained using billions of lines of open-source code hosted on sites like Github. The people who wrote the code are not happy.

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I thought it was pretty scummy when I heard about it. Not sure what anyone was expecting when M$ bought github though. It’s more of a Leopards Ate My Face situation.

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