✨ Nora Tindall  🪐

Anyway, we need to do a LOT of debate on this subject. Not only for copilot but for ANY licensed content. For example: - If we train an AI to write songs, what should we do? Since we used licensed music to train it (+)

- If we train an AI to write movie scripts, what should we do? Since we used licensed movie scripts to train it - If we train an AI to take pictures, what should we do? Since we used professional pictures to train it (+)

This is a WHOLE new area. We can't simplify it as "OMG! COPILOT IS WRITING THE SAME LINE AS WE CAN SEE HERE IN THIS SOFTWARE" Common, it is way more complicated than that!

Actually, we can, and we should simplify it, because no matter how complex the AI system is, it boils down to the same end result. It is designed to provide useful recommendations, not to avoid copyright infringement, that's the problem.

You're mixing concepts, maybe because (as you've said) you're not an expert in machine learning. Recommendations are different from predictions. What Copilot (and also GPT-3) does is predicting your expectations based on a previously stated context. (+)

As I've said, if we go to this road, we can cancel any machine learning initiative, since every ML initiative uses publicly available data, not considering if they are licensed or not.

Good.

Just a final thought. I don't have the answer for it! So, that's why I've said that this needs a LOT of debate. Since both positions could be correct. And I don't have a final opinion yet. I truly don't know if using public available licensed data is morally correct.