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by notrealyme123 40 days ago
User publishes to github => Copilot trains with GitHub data => MS Sells copilot => User workes for Microsoft (in the sense of giving it's labour for MS to make money)

User publishes to github => Deepseek trains with GitHub data => Deepseek gives model away for free => User did not work for Deepseek (in the sense of giving it's labour for Deepseek to make money)

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In the first case MS is giving part of Github itself away for free.
Exactly, it's intuitively different.