- if you reproduce GPL code verbatim, you're in violation*
- no warning that somebody/something is ingesting the repo
- no way for the repo to have opted out
- closed source (you can't get the source from somebody's brain)
- private profit
* Do we even know if the machine is more or less likely to do this? Humans are certainly capable of it.
> no warning that somebody/something is ingesting the repo
An individual reading code on their own time is not the same as ingesting terabytes to train a machine. No matter how much you believe in AI working similar to the human learning (it doesn't), they are not comparable.
> private profit
Again, the difference between an individual reading code to work for a salary is orders of magnitude different from ingesting terabytes of code so a company can create a new feature. Claiming these things are the same only makes sense if you ignore the massive differences in scale and the differences between how humans and machines learn.
Is software doing something at scale unethical? Is it unethical to use software for profit? I'm afraid almost all programmers are guilty of both.