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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/
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
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
#FOSS #Github #Copilot #Microsoft #GPL #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Codeberg
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.
๐ฆ๐: https://twitter.com/ReinH/status/1539626662274269185
Perhaps you or others may want to join or read more?
Boosts welcome!
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 andโฆSoftware Freedom Conservancy