Aral BalkanDon’t get me wrong, GitHub Copilot sounds awesome. I love the idea of an AI giving me code suggestions (how cool). What’s not awesome is that free/open code was used to create a closed/proprietary data model and tools that will once again enrich Big Tech douchebags like Musk.
Bob Mottram@aral GPL'd code.
Collected into a giant data set.
Fed through Machine Learning.
Output by Copilot.
To generate proprietary software.
It's a new formula for value extraction from the commons. In the old days GPL violations were common, but blatant. Now they will be much more obfuscated, so that there's a lot less legal risk for extractors.