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A $9 billion class-action lawsuit has been filed against Microsoft, code-sharing site GitHub and artificial intelligence firm OpenAI for the way their tool Copilot uses people’s code
By Alex Wilkins
8 November 2022
Computer code can be written by humans or artificial intelligence
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Computer code can be written by humans or artificial intelligence
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Microsoft and its computer code-sharing website GitHub, as well as artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, are being sued in California. A proposed class-action lawsuit claims the firms’ AI-powered programming tool Copilot infringes copyright by using millions of lines of human-written code without proper attribution. It is the first big copyright lawsuit over AI and potential damages could exceed $9 billion.
“We contend that the defendants have violated the legal rights of a vast number of creators who posted code or other work…
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