GitHub: We going to train on your data after all
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It's not GitHub. It's Microsoft. Never forget that.
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SlopHub
That is the winner right there.
Compuglobalhypermeganet.
I would bet my life savings they already trained on your data
Right. My theory is that for all of the AI companies that have that don’t use my data option, it’s just an option on the screen. It doesn’t actually do anything. They still use your data.
Nothing intelligent will come of assimilating my code.
I think the only thing I have on my github account is an arduino light blinky thing I wrote at 4 AM while crossfaded because a friend needed a glowy wizard staff for a party. It can only make the model worse.
https://lemmy.world/post/44803616
Stupid, even naive question. What about AGPL code used in this training?
Would that means that the output is also AGPL?
That legal question is not yet clearly answered. I think absolutely yes, but the Megacorps and pro-ai people don't seem to care.
They already trained their AIs on basically all the GPL code. They don't care.
Should "we" care?
And if so, what we can do about it?
lol, enjoy my bugs Octocat
Octocat tentacle winks you "bye!".
Also the AI is trained on FOSS code but then used to make closed code that ignores the open licenses of the FOSS code that it copied.
If you use a public ai agent on it your repo isn't really 'private'
> Microslop
> improve
@garbage_world @MousePotatoDoesStuff hopefully they skip the confirmation bias in the repos with their API keys exposed and commits with a message “hide API key” that we can see the diff of.
@garbage_world Not sure what the purpose of you comment was, but herego to this path in the repo: secrets/secrets.yaml
Edit: just realized it was encrypted
Also check out apiradar.live
They can pay me for consent to use my data, then.