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First Open Source Copyright Lawsuit Chal­lenges GitHub Copi­lot

November 18, 2022

Via: InfoQ

A class-action law­suit has been filed in a US fed­eral court chal­leng­ing the legal­ity of GitHub Copi­lot and the related OpenAI Codex. The suit against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI claims violation of open-source licenses and could have a wide impact in the world of artificial intelligence.

GitHub previewed Copilot, an OpenAI-powered coding assistant, in the summer of 2021 and announced its general availability last July. Powered by the artificial intelligence model OpenAI Codex, the service is a cloud-based tool to assist developers in writing new code by analyzing existing code and comments on GitHub.

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