[sirsinsalot]

If GitHub charge money for a tool producing derivative works of other people's code (maybe without permission, OSS or not) perhaps they should be compensated.

To use a famous example: if an AI were taught to perform heart surgery by viewing footage of skilled surgeons ... would it not be fair that those surgeons earn an on-going amount for their input? An input that is essential to the AIs function.

I worry this is the pointed end of the data hoarding big Co Internet. Our data is used to train models that (potentially, in future) degrade _our_ value while giving nothing back despite being used, unwillingly, to train their models.

[faeriechangling]

Then degrade the data.