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Microsoft owns GitHub and uses OpenAI's generative machine-learning technology to power Copilot, which auto-completes source code for engineers as they type out comments, function definitions, and other prompts.
Ergo, the plaintiffs are unhappy that, in their view, portions of their copyrighted open source code might be provided – copied, rather – by Copilot to other programmers to use, without due credit given and other requirements of the original licenses honored.
The case started with 22 claims in all, and over time this has been whittled down as the defending corporations motioned to have the accusations thrown out of court, requests that Judge Jon Tigar has mostly sustained.
Indeed, last year GitHub was said to have tuned its programming assistant to generate slight variations of ingested training code to prevent its output from being accused of being an exact copy of licensed software.
Until then, however, that leaves the standing claims at just two: an open source license violation allegation, and a breach of contract complaint that was previously reintroduced after being dismissed initially.
"We firmly believe AI will transform the way the world builds software, leading to increased productivity and most importantly, happier developers," GitHub said in a statement to The Register.
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