Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot
Even if this succeeds (I sincerely hope that it does not, as I believe these to be sufficiently transformative as to be considered fair use), it doesn&#x27;t functionally matter in the long term:<p>1. The ability to be able to both run and train these models is going to eventually be plausible on a home machine with even modest hardware.<p>2. These models, e.g. such as one scraped from all of the code on GitHub, will be publicly available via torrent or whatever.<p>3. People will be able to run it locally as an integrated plug-in in their IDE of choice, jetbrains, vs code, etc.<p>4. You&#x27;ll never know if somebody has lifted a bit of code in violation of a license anymore than you would be able to tell if somebody copy-pasted from stack overflow without attribution in any commercial application