<story><title>Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks of Copilot</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2023/09/07/copilot-copyright-commitment-ai-legal-concerns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>I suspect Microsoft would earn more money by doing this.&lt;p&gt;Their own engineers would get productivity boosts - with copilot already being familiar with data structures, code style, etc. would be a big boost to accuracy.&lt;p&gt;But also, third party code would end up being more similar.   Code style of the whole world would be pushed towards &amp;#x27;Microsoft style&amp;#x27;, which probably makes hiring easier, less training time for engineers, etc.&lt;p&gt;And the downside, that is outsiders might learn tiny nuggets of info about microsoft sources, is probably irrelevant when outsiders can already decompile binaries and learn far more.</text></item><item><author>tremon</author><text>Let Microsoft first publish a Copilot model that&amp;#x27;s trained on the internal codebases of Azure, Windows and Office. That&amp;#x27;s the only way Microsoft can convince me that they truly believe Copilot is non-infringing technology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chii</author><text>&amp;gt; is probably irrelevant when outsiders can already decompile binaries and learn far more.&lt;p&gt;most, if not all microsoft products can have their sources be available for viewing, if you are one of those vip development partners. microsoft doesn&amp;#x27;t really have any secret source (pardon the pun) of which the leaking would undo their value proposition.&lt;p&gt;In fact, if microsft opened up their system a bit more, they might even gain some PR or mindshare, and have no effect on, if not increase, their bottom line.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks of Copilot</title><url>https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2023/09/07/copilot-copyright-commitment-ai-legal-concerns/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>londons_explore</author><text>I suspect Microsoft would earn more money by doing this.&lt;p&gt;Their own engineers would get productivity boosts - with copilot already being familiar with data structures, code style, etc. would be a big boost to accuracy.&lt;p&gt;But also, third party code would end up being more similar.   Code style of the whole world would be pushed towards &amp;#x27;Microsoft style&amp;#x27;, which probably makes hiring easier, less training time for engineers, etc.&lt;p&gt;And the downside, that is outsiders might learn tiny nuggets of info about microsoft sources, is probably irrelevant when outsiders can already decompile binaries and learn far more.</text></item><item><author>tremon</author><text>Let Microsoft first publish a Copilot model that&amp;#x27;s trained on the internal codebases of Azure, Windows and Office. That&amp;#x27;s the only way Microsoft can convince me that they truly believe Copilot is non-infringing technology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zargon</author><text>It would be surprising to me if their internal engineers don&amp;#x27;t already have access to a model trained on internal Microsoft code.</text></comment>