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Comment by blibble | Hacker News Reader

the lawsuit against github/microsoft scraping the entire internet for code wins and kills the practice entirely

there, that was easy to imagine

This will linger in the courts for years if not a decade, all the while the tech and industry will move on. Think Oracle vs Google case involving Java on Android. Was finally settled but didn't have any impact.

And if it sinks one model, there will be others. Like has been said, the genie is out of the bottle.

Another tool will just take it's place. It's too useful

if fair use doesn't apply to training... what would it be trained on?

Microsoft's code base?

who the hell would pay for that?

Right, trashy ads would randomly pop up in your program.

Or heaven for bid the AI decides to add one of Microsoft's famous "please wait while we try to fix the problem" dialogs in your project. Especially since I am pretty sure that code looks something like this at a high level

  double sleep = random time between now and heat death of the universe

 thread.sleep(sleep)

 throw prompt that problem couldn't be solved

There were ads for payed sample code work a while back... so, I guess at least some players are sourcing royalty free stuff.

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