How GitHub Copilot Could Steer Microsoft Into a Copyright Storm
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Register: GitHub Copilot – a programming auto-suggestion tool trained from public source code on the internet – has been caught generating what appears to be copyrighted code, prompting an attorney to look into a possible copyright infringement claim. On Monday, Matthew Butterick, a lawyer, desig … ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Remember my decision to stop using Github? 🤔 Remember my Why I no longer trust Github 😅 – Well who’s laughing now?! 🤣 #Github #Copilot #Microsoft (Don’t trust Github or Microsoft with your hard open source work!)

@prologic@twtxt.net the people who stayed on and are now joining a class action!! 😂😂they’re laughing all the way to the bank!!

@prologic@twtxt.net The problem is that if I fork your code (which I can do), and then post it on GitHub (which I can do), then Copilot still trains on it, whether you like it or not.

The answer here, is what’s happening: Litigation.

@kt84@twtxt.net More than likely if a class action settlement happens, anyone who can allege they had their code on GitHub during the span of time Microsoft was training Copilot will be eligible, which would include anyone who deleted their repos when Microsoft first showed it off.

@ocdtrekkie@twtxt.net Yeah I knew this day would come. What hardly anyone saw but a few of us was and is highly illegal. Or at least in violation of basisally every license on every project on GitHub ever.