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At least he was asked to opt in.

With Co-pilot, programmers don't even have a way to opt out.

Isn't this going to happen anyway? Someone will train a ML model with martial arts movies to generate new sequences, just like they do with all sorts of other media.

It's fair use to train it on existing movies, isn't it?

> It's fair use to train it on existing movies, isn't it?

I don't think so, if the intent is to build a system that competes with the original actors.

> With Co-pilot, programmers don't even have a way to opt out.

I find not using GitHub lets me opt out. Am I wrong?

I'm afraid you are. If your project is open source, it's quite likely someone will put a copy up on GitHub while they're working on it.

I could include an anti-GitHub clause in my open source project if I really wanted. But at any rate, if my project is open source, then haven't I said that using it a ML corpus is fine?

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