GitHub AI code assistant lawsuit dismissed

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit which claimed GitHub's AI code assistant infringed the copyright of user content used to train it.

The suit was filed by Matthew Butterick, a lawyer and open-source programmer, in conjunction with Joseph Saveri Law Firm [which claimed] 'Despite Microsoft's protestations to the contrary, it does not have the right to treat source code offered under an open-source license as if it were in the public domain.'

— Read the rest
The post GitHub AI code assistant lawsuit dismissed appeared first on Boing Boing.