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Obligatory, “Was this article written by chatgpt?”

It’s not antitrust because GitHub isn’t a monopoly. And copilot only scanned public repos, so anyone could train, if they like.

Also this isn’t like the Google Books case because Google made the books available, violating copyright. GitHub has not made the code available. So these cases aren’t similar and aren’t antitrust.

Although comically, by using GitHub I grant them copyright to publish my public repo so I suppose they could republish my repo in other ways without any additional permission. It would be interesting if their license allows them to rebounder and publish my repos in a book or something.