Now they can also train their gray area trained model (trained upon our Github projects without consolidating with us if it was alright to do so) further!
By spying on every command you type in your CLI, and phoning home to MS about it, to train it further.
I guarantee you,
If you use it, you’ll be their free training monkey.And once they used you for free,
and the product improved enough,
they’ll subscription charge you forever to make use of it.(trained upon our Github projects without consolidating with us if it was alright to do so)
Without having read it, I’d be willing to bet that the Copilot EULA requires users to agree not to sue Microsoft for any of their copyrights that might have been infringed. Personally, I think anybody who has a project on Github – especially one with a copyleft license – shouldn’t touch Copilot with a ten-foot pole in order to preserve all their legal options.
Interestingly, OpenAI claims they will shoulder any legal burden resulting from copyright infringement their products enable. I guess they feel they’re on sturdy enough ground and want to use their resources to ensure precedent is set
And that’s one of the reasons why I won’t use it.
What are the other reasons?
it is available only in GitHub Copilot Business license, I have the standard one- I would rather just type the command instead of using ML to type it for me
- if I don’t know which command should I use, I can just do a quick search and remember it for next time
- I often have to use different machines, and it will be annoying to log in to github copilot every time
It is actually included in the standard license, just the documentation for enabling it is quite easy to misunderstand (it mentions several times that it’s for business only, but what it means is needing to enable it is business only. It’s already enabled for standard users). Confused me too.
Thanks, edited
adios
