According to vice, Microsoft, as well as on its technological partner, Openai was sued. It is known that GitHub programmers have accused the company of unlicensed use of their source code in the new model of AI, known as Copilot.
As noted, Copilot works inside the system from GitHub. Codex artificial intelligence system was created by Openai and licensed for Microsoft. She is trained in “millions of public repositories” to generate the code.
Lawyer and programmer Matthew Batterik headed the lawsuit against Microsoft. He launched a site dedicated to the GITHUB COPILOT investigation, and united with a law firm for filing a collective claim.
The lawsuit states that an article was violated, which states that open source code can only be used for non -profit purposes and with the obligatory indication of the author.