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On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 06:35:32PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 5:43 PM William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 04:33:43PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > > I just found out while I was on vacation about Github's copilot feature. |
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> > It looks like the SFC is urging foss developers to ditch github over |
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> > this. |
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> I get the sentiment, but I don't see what direct impact it will have. |
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> If Gentoo stops using Github all our code will inevitably still be on |
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> there and will still end up being used to train copilot. |
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Inevitably? If most of our activity moves somewhere else, I don't see |
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why we couldn't blow away all of https://github.com/gentoo. |
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> I'm not sure how strong the copyright argument even is. Your own |
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> brain is a neural network that has been trained on copyrighted |
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> textbooks, lectures, code from every employer you ever worked at, and |
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> so on. Human beings don't even have the ability to avoid learning |
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> from things they are exposed to; it is a completely involuntary |
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> process. |
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> In any case, it seems like the general preference has been to move |
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> towards something else anyway, so it seems a bit of a moot point. |
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> Most already want to move something else, and after we move basically |
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> everything we have ever done and will ever do will still end up |
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> embedded in the mind of copilot anyway. |
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> Rich |
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