Comment by zahlman
6 days ago
> and at the same time believe that copyleft licenses placed by a collective of developers on their work should be respected and GitHub was evil to steal their code.
I think I missed a story? Is GitHub somehow stealing my code if I publish it there under GPL or similar? Or did they steal some specific bit of code in the past?
Copilot was trained on all public code on GitHub and in the early days it could be made to actually vomit code that was identical to its training data. They've added some safeguards to protect against the latter, but a lot of people are still sore at the idea that Copilot trained on the data in the first place.
if your code is on Github it was/is being used as training data