[throwaway2037]

Reading this chain of comments made me think: What if Copilot was a purely academic creation. Imagine a bunch of computer scientists from ETH Zürich created something identical. Would we be having the same debate? I'm not sure.

And yes, I do agree that some tech companies push the boundary of information and commercial law and wait to be tested by someone with deep pockets.

[joshgree88]

We absolutely would if their plan was then to produce a paid for product of the backs of all the people who unknowingly contributed - if say they were to release the model and the training corpus in its entirety then nope...