Comment by rlt

I seriously doubt Microsoft / GitHub would care if Copilot or a similar model were trained on their proprietary source code. An advanced code completion tool does pose any significant risk of someone building a competitive product to GitHub or any other Microsoft products.

This is an intelligence augmentation tool. It’s effectively like I’m really good at reading billions of lines of code and incorporating the learnings into my own code. If you don’t want people learning from your code, don’t publish it.