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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Are you guys fine with these new shenanigans from Github. I found a bug and wanted to check what has been the development on that, only to find out most of the discussion was hidden by github and requesting me to sign-in to view it.

It threw me straight back to when Microsoft acquired Github and the discussions around the future of opensource on a microsoft owned infrastructure, now microsoft is exploiting free work from the community to train its AI, and building walls around its product, are open source contributors fine with that ?

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Don't forget you're contributing your code to Bill's AI

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Which is under litigation https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This is exactly why I add a non-commercial license to my comments. If courts decide that Github was in the wrong, then there's a chance commercial AI makers just scraping the web might be on the hook too.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that license applicable to painting?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Creative Commons is for creative works, hence the name Creative Commons, I believe.

Creative Commons licenses give everyone from individual creators to large institutions a standardized way to grant the public permission to use their creative work under copyright law.