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#copilot as "smart snippet/autocomplete" tool is about as good as it should be. If you find that Copilot is actually doing a good job writing your logic, or getting even close, you either (a) aren't doing very much engineering, or (b) are writing code that doesn't need to be written.
#copilot

This one has different methodologies and philosophies that try to mitigate some of the ethical issues with other similar #GenerativeAI programming systems.

Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research release StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating #AI like GitHub's #Copilot, as part of the #BigCode project.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/04/hugging-face-and-servicenow-release-a-free-code-generating-model/

#MachineLearning

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techcrunch.com
#AI #copilot #machinelearning #generativeAI #BigCode

The lead attorney for GitHub arguing that #Copilot using #OpenSource is fair use following precedent from #Oracle Vs #Google is the woman who represented Oracle and personally argued against the verdict in public on Twitter.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openai-microsoft-want-court-toss-lawsuit-accusing-them-abusing-open-source-code-2023-01-27/

OpenAI, Microsoft want court to toss lawsuit accusing them of abusing open-source code

Microsoft Corp, Microsoft's GitHub Inc and OpenAI Inc told a San Francisco federal court that a proposed class-action lawsuit for improperly monetizing open-source code to train their artificial-intelligence systems cannot be sustained.
Reuters
#google #opensource #oracle #copilot

Content warning: corporate dystopia

#github #microsoft #copilot

Microsoft's Github Copilot is disregarding Free Software licenses and will be happily selling parts of your GPL code against your will! Woo!

https://drewdevault.com/2022/06/23/Copilot-GPL-washing.html

As the author of this article says - free software should be dependant on free software architecture - I recommend https://codeberg.org as an open-source alternative to Github.
Sadly Github is no longer a platform that can be trusted.

CC: @codeberg

# # # # # # # #

GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

drewdevault.com
#FreeSoftware #foss #codeberg #opensource #github #microsoft #gpl #copilot

# # just sells code other people wrote

https://twitter.com/ReinH/status/1539626662274269185

RT @ReinH@twitter.com

github copilot is incredible. it just sells code other people wrote, but because it's an "AI" it is apparently allowed to launder that code without it being a "derivative work". lol. lmao. what an amazing grift.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ReinH/status/1539626662274269185
#github #copilot

Lots of understandable concern today as # # announced their new # availability today. Probably worth a reminder that @conservancy has convened a working group on #, #, and other related issues, especially for # and # contributors.

Perhaps you or others may want to join or read more?

Boosts welcome! :boost_requested:

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/feb/23/committee-ai-assisted-software-github-copilot/

New Committee Will Investigate Copyleft Implications of AI-Assisted Programming

Software Freedom Conservancy announces a Committee On AI-Assisted Programming and Copyleft to develop recommendations and plans for a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community response to the use of machine learning tools for code generation and…
Software Freedom Conservancy
#FreeSoftware #opensource #github #microsoft #ethics #licensing #copilot

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