[throwaway1851]

> why not train it on opt-in repositories for a few years first, and iron out the kinks?

Ha ha. Because then the product couldn’t be built. Better to steal now and ask forgiveness later, or better yet, deny the theft ever occurred.

[codalan]

If Copilot was designed with any ethics in mind, it would have been an opt-in model.

Instead, they scoured and plagiarized everyone's source code without their consent.

[ovi256]

Because the ethical opt-in model builders are still working on putting together their cleanly sourced dataset.

[concordDance]

Copyright infringement is not theft in the most important sense that matters. Theft is normally negative sum, copyright infringement is almost always positive sum.

[tauwauwau]

Had to find this after a long time

IT Crowd Piracy Warning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg