Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/GitHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GitHub</span></a> are trying to derail <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Copilot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Copilot</span></a> code <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>copyright</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> fight<br>And so far, they might succeed: Where's the smoking gun?<br>Copilot & <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> Codex were trained from tons of publicly available <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/sourcecode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sourcecode</span></a>, including plaintiffs' GitHub repos, and other materials. When presented with prompt by a user, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> models will generate <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>code</span></a> snippets in response, using materials it learned from. But is this the meaning of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a>? And can it be used <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/commercially" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commercially</span></a>?<br><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/01/microsoft_github_copilot/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2023/07/01/mic</span><span class="invisible">rosoft_github_copilot/</span></a></p>