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		codalan on Oct 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits ... If Copilot was designed with any ethics in mind, it would have been an opt-in model. Instead, they scoured and plagiarized everyone's source code without their consent.

ovi256 on Oct 17, 2022 [–]

Because the ethical opt-in model builders are still working on putting together their cleanly sourced dataset.

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