[6gvONxR4sf7o]

It’s a shame that copilot would not be possible without all the zillions of hours of work that went into writing that code, while the authors of that training data get zero compensation for their contribution to copilot (and zero ability to opt out).

[deep_etcetera]

I'm guessing that since there are hundreds of millions of repositories the typical marginal value of someone's contributions would optimistically be on the order of a few dollars. But since the consensus on HN is that they spend very little time actually coding and there is no use-case for copilot, perhaps it worth a lot less.

[6gvONxR4sf7o]

If I stole just $0.50 from every american, the typical marginal value of their contribution is tiny, but I still stole nearly $200M. Maybe none of those people will raise much of a stink because it's just $0.50, but it's just as bad.

Practically, it's bad in that I never got the chance dictate how they use my code. My GPL code has very little marginal value to my users, but I got to dictate that their work that uses it is also GPL (or they can pay me for a different license). I want that choice when it comes to my work being used as ML training data.

[deep_etcetera]

I think it will be great if they can create some mechanism to compensate people for their data, I just suspect many people conflate the value of their data as training data and say how much they might charge a client to write some similar code.