↳ In-reply-to » 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.