Well, heck, you can shrivel it down to ONE employee and then fire them, if you just wanna tank Twitter.
It seems like the sorta crackhead move we have come to expect from mister attention whore extraordinaire. He’s in a competition of some kind with Kanye, apparently.
Why is he wasting 40 billion on a trumpet of little worth if it’s worth so little?
What a weird mid life crisis sports car to buy, it’s not even red.
Again, if I put code in a public repo on GitHub and don’t include a license that allows it, you cannot copy that code. It doesn’t matter that you’re able to access it.
Yes, I mentioned that. And I think it would be great if GitHub added some sort of scan to see if it was accidentally returning some verbatim code and gave a link to the repo it came from, but the situation with Google was much more clearly harmful: by scraping and presenting verbatim quotes, they are directly siphoning web traffic away from the sites they scrape from, and many of those sites make money based on page views. That is direct economic harm, and the actual impact was significant for many companies, not merely theoretical.
With open source code, the harm is much less tangible, since negligibly few open source projects make money from people going to their GitHub pages because they're searching for code snippets (not zero, but almost). My guess is that an honest quantification would put the lost revenue due to Copilot's existence in the tens to maaaaaybe hundreds of dollars. Courts look at that type of thing, which is why I don't think this will end up being an issue, at least in the US. Europe is wild, who knows what they'll do there, and that's where activists on this topic should most wisely apply pressure, you can always convince someone in government there to throw a spear at a BigCo. You won't take them down, but you may get them to negotiate, and I don't even necessarily think that's a bad thing.
That said, even in the US, if enough people make noise then things could change, so I encourage you to speak to your congressperson (I will be as well, but arguing the other side, because I really do think this is fair use and I'd like to see it enshrined as such explicitly, because this fight is going to be extremely common over the next few decades).
Smells like: “ I stole this lousy apple that wasn’t any good”
Then why did you steal it?
Put your money where your mouth is, Microsoft, train copilot on your own code!!!
Don’t wanna train it with windows 11 code? Prefer to hijack others projects and use their for your needs and then pretend thst insulting others and calling their code worthless will get you off the hook????
It’s a net harm for the programmers whose code is being willfully plagiarized.
It’s a net boon for Microsoft in their efforts to rule the world.
It’s a net loss for society and ethics.
Open up copilot code, Microsoft, if you are so sure that everyone must wear transparent underwear let’s see you wearing some. Train copilot on windows 11 code.
It’s not public domain.
Expand on the unethical part. So people published code that could be referenced and copied on GitHub. There was no ethical problem, the world, society were happy.
Github make a convenient way to search and contextualise this publicly available code and paste it into your code (adjusting local scope, format, language along the way). Suddenly we have crossed an ethical line!?
Which ethical line? Are you pretending people never copy and pasted open source code before copilot? Are you pretending open source code never copy and pasted other open source code? That we were in an ethically pure world until copilot came along?
> So people published code that could be referenced and copied on GitHub. There was no ethical problem, the world, society were happy.
This code has different licenses. You can't just copy code randomly without checking license first.
Copilot serves it stripped of the license to unaware users. Even if copilot user wants only to reuse code licensed in a way that allows it copilot will serve him code from restrictive licenses without him being aware.
I hope I shall never be forced to call a Microsoft product a person. I find your entire implied world view to be a cheap parody of the rights living beings inherently should have.
If we get to the point that capitalist maximalist-utilitarianism insists upon hijacking the very concept of what a living organism is, I can only compare it to a teddy bear vs an actual bear.
It’s not enough to merely put fur on it and an internal rom for it to regurgitate prefabricated roars upon contextual prodding.
Respect the life you are only one instance of, for hubris has always brought suffering and pain in its wake.
Yes, copilot IS copying code verbatim from GitHub hosted repos, right now.
The license and attribution are stripped from regurgitated copied code snippets. Verbatim with no context, no attribution, no citation, no reference to the project it’s part of…
If the people don’t known which project the code was taken from, how can they one day contribute to that codebase?
Copilot is an interloper who doesn’t even tell you which project the code snippet was ripped off from!!
One may decide that it’s too unstable or dangerous to base one’s primary tools in proprietary software land.
I have precisely this concern in my fields of work.