Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot is massive copyright infringement
Before you read this article – note that Codeium offers a competitor to GitHub Copilot. This means they have something to sell, and something to gain by making Copilot look bad. That being said – their findings are things we already kind of knew, and further illustrate that Copilot is quite possibly one of the largest, if not the largest, GPL violations in history. To prove that GitHub Copilot trains on non perm … ⌘ Read more
This is the biggest problem I have with using large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Copilot to assist in the development of code.
@carsten@yarn.zn80.net I would strongly encourage you to reconsider your use of these tools as a direct copyright, and license violation of the works of those that you are benefiting from without contribution, attribution, or maintaining or adhering to the original license of the code that the models were trained on.
The whole ChatGPT and large language model (LLM) training datasets, are probably the worlds biggest copyright and authorship violations in human
history.
This is why many years ago I took all of my source code, and all of my open source project off of GitHub.
in a normal software development lifecycle if you were building a new project and reusing other people’s works, you would correctly attribute what you use correctly identify licenses that you borrow and use from etc.
I really have to say this is one of the biggest disasters in modern software development in our industry of all time.
The lawsuits are starting to happen../
@prologic@twtxt.net Hi there. Makes sense and sounds of logic to me. I will think about it. But then, where should I host my code with nice automatic builds? Can I set up something on my own? Or should I go to gitlab?
@carsten@yarn.zn80.net Gitea is nice and now includes a built-in CI/CD that shares the same syntax as GitHub actions. It’s really smooth and quite nice 👌
@prologic@twtxt.net Oh nice. Did not check Gitea for quite some time. So no need to have Drone installed aside it?
@prologic@twtxt.net Oh and I am not using CoPilot. That’s too much data collection for me. I try to avoid using MS Products wherever I can.
@carsten@yarn.zn80.net Nope has built-in CI/CD
@carsten@yarn.zn80.net Hah okay 😆
@ionores@twtxt.net I installed it and I like it. It is very nice.