#Microsoft and #GitHub are trying to derail #Copilot code #copyright #legal fight
And so far, they might succeed: Where's the smoking gun?
Copilot & #OpenAI Codex were trained from tons of publicly available #sourcecode, including plaintiffs' GitHub repos, and other materials. When presented with prompt by a user, #AI models will generate #code snippets in response, using materials it learned from. But is this the meaning of #opensource? And can it be used #commercially?
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/01/microsoft_github_copilot/

@highvizghilliesuit

Copyright covers it.

Search/social media companies show a #snippet of the #article, and #link back to the original #site to read the full #article. That's fine, and shouldn't need #payment.

But if they're #copying more of the original article than is necessary for that purpose, eliminating those visits to the original site and benefiting #commercially, they're #violating the site's #copyright, and should pay #damages and #penalties for that.