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by trelliscoded 914 days ago
Part of the reason CoPilot is so good is that they reportedly ingested a huge chunk of GitHub. Now that everyone's onto this scam where they're not getting paid to help train some model, there's legal challenges to the legality of this approach, and a move back towards self-hosted infrastructure. If there's an injunction and a ruling on that legality, it may be that GPT-4 will be the only model that will ever be trained on a codebase as large as GitHub.