Comment by Esophagus4
15 hours ago
And also those early Spotify days where Spotify would automatically post what you’re listening to to your Facebook wall.
I’ve always seen that practice of using the user as your recommendation lever without their consent as unethical.
Those services always asked ahead of time though. And at the time, it was seen as cool, like a not-so-subtle "look at me, listening to music on this cool service".
My suspicion is that it violates the users copyright on their commit message.
Technically (in the US at least) purely AI-generated content has no copyright, hence any copyright associated with the commit can only assigned to the human authors (or the entity they are working for). As I understand it neither Copilot nor Microsoft should have any actual claim of authorship (from a copyright/IP perspective).
It's still quite problematic IMO