We have decreased ours and they have increased theirs but we are still buying more and more shit from them - their emissions are our emissions - while the demand side exists the supply will too - it will just be supplied from somewhere else...
We absolutely would if their plan was then to produce a paid for product of the backs of all the people who unknowingly contributed - if say they were to release the model and the training corpus in its entirety then nope...
"Persons with heightened overexcitabilities in one or more of the five areas that Dabrowski listed—intellectual, emotional, imaginational, psychomotor, and sensual—perceive reality in a different, more intense, multifaceted manner."
I don't actually see anyone suggesting that they haven't thought about the legal implications as you said it would be almost impossible for them not to have - but just because MS believes they are in the clear does not mean they are and more than that they may well be in the clear legally but that still dorles not mean they are doing the right thing...
Oh yeah of course - I am sure they have multiple legal arguments and different ones will be deployed based on how they are legally challenged - I doubt very much they didn't see this coming - but at its heart I think MS are confident they can get away with it...
But the legal opinion will be "your in completely new waters here, it's for us to guide the legal debate in our own favor" - a fundamental part of that will be to pretend no issues exist and to wait for the moves of other actors first
Of course I don't think there will be any legal route to anything of this kind but I think there is a strong moral case that obviously MS will ignore completely...
I think saying all off Github source should now be GPL is going a little far but I do feel very strongly that the people who contributed to the "intelligence" in copilot (most likely everyone who has committed to a public GH repo) should have access to the training dataset and the underlying model and its weights - obviously there is a lot more involved in actually making copilot from this but it would allow other people to start to compete fairly