[jalfresi]

This does raise a point - do we now have to assume that all those services that provide free hosting/access/service to open source projects will be strip-mining the work of the open source community to sell them back to us all? I almost feel stupid believing it was an altruistic move to contribute back to the shoulders of giants they were already standing on...

[eloisius]

I feel scammed too. At this point it should be obvious, but I’m finally savvy to the fact that every tech company that offers anything free, and you use it to create “your” content, is not your friend and you don’t even own the works you host with them. I feel scammed that GitHub was cool about 10 years ago. It was like the professional/cultural center of gravity in my career. GitHubbers we’re cool people. Everyone cool hosted their site on GitHub Pages. I didn’t want to see a resume; what’s your GitHub? Now I feel stupid for having contributed whatever tiny bit of brains I did to this AI by thinking that I was using the cool, developer-first code website.

[Separo]

No. You still have the option not to buy Copilot and still use GitHub's services for free on public projects. Or, if you're not comfortable with your open source code being perused by an AI, you can set up your own privately hosted public Git repo pretty easily.

I honestly don't understand the general outrage at this fair seeming deal to me.