[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.