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Copilot and FOSS
Microsoft and GitHub's Copilot feature creates controversy and could indicate trouble for the FOSS ideals. Copyleft's licensing helps to ensure, among other things, the software remains free and open. This open nature allowed MS to use millions of lines of code to train their AI. MS continues to insist that the output created by Copilot is not anything necessitating license compliance but are simultaneously vague on how they can say that, especially without releasing a list of what was used for training. I wouldn't be surprised if there are competing ideals withing the company that can boil down to profits vs FOSS ideals. It seems feasible for something like Copilot to generate compliant code which could mean it itself needs to be open source. In the corporate zone, however, I imagine that people are seeing a rising opportunity for increasing productivity and don't particularly care about the FOSS philosophy. This could contribute to the originality problem if it turns out that propriety software gets written with open source code. Copilot itself aside, similar projects probably already exist in some form at a number of tech companies and it's harder to tell what exactly it does when it's a tool used internally.