Web search engines claim fair use for snippets, and MS claims fair use for Copilot. However, a web search engine result page is only an aggregate of the excerpted pages, and it refers back to them; unlike software authored using Copilot, it does not draw those snippets together into a coherent purposeful whole, strip all reference to the original author. and claim complete originality.
That MS went ahead with training Copilot on open source code authored by people who are clearly not OK with it is why they are so short on goodwill.
barnabee|4 years ago
There are other ways to make sure artists and inventors can eat than by using the threat of violence to make the unscarce scarce.
novok|4 years ago
throwaway82931|4 years ago
That MS went ahead with training Copilot on open source code authored by people who are clearly not OK with it is why they are so short on goodwill.