[blibble]

if fair use doesn't apply to training... what would it be trained on?

Microsoft's code base?

who the hell would pay for that?

[NoZZz]

There were ads for payed sample code work a while back... so, I guess at least some players are sourcing royalty free stuff.

[lagrange77]

Right, trashy ads would randomly pop up in your program.

[tcmart14]

Or heaven for bid the AI decides to add one of Microsoft's famous "please wait while we try to fix the problem" dialogs in your project. Especially since I am pretty sure that code looks something like this at a high level

  double sleep = random time between now and heat death of the universe

 thread.sleep(sleep)

 throw prompt that problem couldn't be solved