You want to use my code, without ever knowing I wrote it? You want to use my hard work, regurgitated anonymously, stripped of all credit, stripped of all attribution, stripped of all identity and ancestry and citation? FUCK YOU
There's no need to defend something so obviously harmful, so why do you do it?
The law should be amended to make this kind of theft illegal.
It's not ambiguous.
This has the potential to severely damage open source - I would not host my open source project on GitHub, especially if it was copyleft. I'm sure many others wouldn't either. Some of these authors make amazing software that we might not see because of this.
Every artist, every creative individual, must EXPLICITLY OPT IN to having their hard work regurgitated anonymously by Copilot or Dall-E or whatever.
If you want to donate your code or your painting or your music, so it can be used ("written", "painted"), in whole or in part, by everyone else, without attribution, then go ahead and opt in.
Otherwise, you can't use the artist's or author's creative work for training.
All these code/art washing systems, that absorb and mix and regurgitate the hard work of creative people must be strictly opt in.
You can have a totally legitimate business making hacksaws and bolt cutters.
Now if your customers use these tools to break into homes and steal things, then yes, that’s illegal.
But making the hacksaws and bolt cutters is not.