Ask Lemmy
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Please don't post about US Politics.
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
view the rest of the comments
GitHub started adding new good features after being acquired by Microsoft
Amd abusing open source code for AI training without permissions...
I agree that the way that train copilot is very morally iffy, but "without permission" isn't totally accurate. That type of usage is covered by their ToS.
If you don't want MS to use your shit, self host a gitlab 🤷🏼♂️
If it was covered before copilot that's something I actually wasnt aware of but if they added it afterwards it's not actually a good point because they seem to feed it absolutely everything on the platform.
It certainly was - the github ToS grants Github (or MS in point of fact) the ability to use your code to "improve their products and services", and has pretty much from the get-go.
Now, with that being said, what with all the recent rulings surrounding copyright and AI, it's possible that this clause will be deemed void in the context of training AI, but at least according to current law in the US, github was acting legally.
Whether they were acting morally is much different question, and in my opinion the answer is no - but being evil has never stopped corporate America before, or resulted in them being held accountable
We can always hope I guess!