GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering?
Attempts to litigate any license violation are going to get precisely nowhere I bet, but I find the actual license violation argument persuasive.<p>This is an excellent example of how the AI singularity/revolution/whatever is a total distraction and that a much bigger and more serious issue is how AI is becoming so effective at turning the output of cheap/free human mental labour into capital. If AI keeps getting better and better and status quo socio-economic structure don't change, trillions in capital will be captured by the 0.01%.<p>I would be quite a turn up for the books if this AI co-pilot gets suddenly and dramatically better in 2030 and it negatively impacts the software engineering profession. "Hey, that's our code you used to replace us!" we will cry out too late.