Why is Copilot so bad?
Why is Copilot so bad?
Posted Jul 4, 2022 16:37 UTC (Mon) by bluca (subscriber, #118303)In reply to: Why is Copilot so bad? by SLi
Parent article: Software Freedom Conservancy: Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!
> I believe Microsoft's motivation for not training it on their internal code is not about copyright violations, but being careful to not divulge trade secrets—which is obviously a non-issue with any code that is freely accessible.
I'm not in GH so I don't know, but if I had to take a wild guess I'd say it's much simpler than that. The non-GH internal SCM systems are such an horrendous pain in the back to use and even get access to, I'm willing to bet the team working on the model, even if given permission to use those sources, would "nope" the heck out very, very fast and never look back.