↳ In-reply-to » 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

@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.