I do not agree with Github's use of copyrighted code as training for Copilot

Issue #454 — July 05, 2021

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I do not agree with Github’s use of copyrighted code as training for Copilot thelig.ht \| points: 801 \| comments: 506

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GPT-J-6B – A 6 billion parameter, autoregressive text generation model github.com \| points: 598 \| comments: 141

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Audacity may collect “Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation” and more reddit.com \| points: 542 \| comments: 231

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Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transparency log groups.google.com \| points: 355 \| comments: 206

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Soviet Venus Images (2004) mentallandscape.com \| points: 318 \| comments: 89

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GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you twitter.com \| points: 266 \| comments: 189

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The Growth Ponzi Scheme strongtowns.org \| points: 266 \| comments: 214

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Blender and the Rabbids blender.org \| points: 255 \| comments: 69

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The Idempotency-Key HTTP header field datatracker.ietf.org \| points: 245 \| comments: 94

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Commit often, perfect later, publish once: Git best practices (2013) sethrobertson.github.io \| points: 230 \| comments: 97

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Is GitHub a derivative work of GPL’d software? drewdevault.com \| points: 217 \| comments: 198

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What should the CPU usage be of a fully-loaded CPU that has been throttled? devblogs.microsoft.com \| points: 185 \| comments: 169

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Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time? chronicle.com \| points: 178 \| comments: 102

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Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror digitalviolence.org \| points: 156 \| comments: 27

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Underground fiber optics spy on humans moving above wired.com \| points: 149 \| comments: 56

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Write a time-series database engine from scratch nakabonne.dev \| points: 149 \| comments: 10

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When static makes your C code 10 times faster mazzo.li \| points: 142 \| comments: 70

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On working too hard: finding balance, and lessons learned from others blog.lawrencejones.dev \| points: 138 \| comments: 73

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Where are we going from here? Software engineering needs formal methods ntietz.com \| points: 136 \| comments: 124

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70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll kron4.com \| points: 128 \| comments: 201

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