[echelon]

This is such a Luddite behavior.

How much hubris we have as a species to think that our professions will endure until the end of the stars. To think that the software we write will be eternal.

The thing that we do now is no different than spinning cotton.

I'd be shocked if the total duration of human-authored programming lasted more than a hundred years.

I'll also wager that in thirty years, "we'll" write more software in any given year than all of history up until that point.

[AlexandrB]

I'm all on board if the Microsoft's of the world are. But they choose to train their AI on OSS code and not their own codebase. So clearly they think similarly to the parent, they just want you to forget about that part when it suits them.

[echelon]

If we pass laws restricting the training on copyrighted information, the only organizations that will be able to train will be institutional.

Microsoft would benefit from restriction. Not us.

[blibble]

would you pay for a product trained on say, the MS Teams, Sharepoint or Skype codebases?

no, and no-one else would either