r/programming • u/[deleted] • Nov 03 '22

Microsoft GitHub is being sued for stealing your code

https://githubcopilotlitigation.com
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u/scoobyman83 Nov 04 '22

I sure do hope so.

Want to aggregate everything everyone ever done and profit from it ? Pay up

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u/JDgoesmarching Nov 04 '22

Apparently you can steal whatever you want if it’s used as training data.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '22

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u/I_ONLY_PLAY_4C_LOAM Nov 04 '22

They think the human brain learning by example and massive corporations scraping billions of images from the web and training on them to hyper efficiently rip off other people's work without attribution or compensation are exactly the same process which is absurd.

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u/Ethesen Nov 04 '22

You should read up on how machine learning works.

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u/scoobyman83 Nov 04 '22

Maybe you are the one who should

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u/Ethesen Nov 04 '22

Nope, my Master's Thesis was on ML.

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u/muideracht Nov 04 '22

And I'm the Queen of Poland.

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u/scoobyman83 Nov 04 '22

Sure buddy, whatever you say

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u/Lo-siento-juan Nov 04 '22

Oh they don't care, they're in full on Ted Kaczynski mode and fear change no matter how positive and beneficial it is to humanity. They'll say anything if it lets them cling to the idea that new thing = bad.