Not trained on MS closed source [LWN.net]

Not trained on MS closed source

Posted Jun 27, 2022 12:45 UTC (Mon) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: Not trained on MS closed source by LtWorf
Parent article: DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

Or more accurately, they are *very* sure of the (il)legality of their approach and only dare to use it against projects that they feel won’t fight back.

Microsoft has access to plenty enough of proprietary code to train a model on, that they chose to use other people’s code instead says volumes.

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Not trained on MS closed source

Posted Jun 27, 2022 18:31 UTC (Mon) by bluca (subscriber, #118303) [Link] (1 responses)

Or more accurately, it is trained on publicly (legally) available corpora, as the law requires to be excepted from copyright restrictions

Not trained on MS closed source

Posted Jun 30, 2022 13:45 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

FOSS is not the same thing as public domain, it is all copyrighted