Anonymous User asked: The Software Heritage Foundation saga sure is happening. I wonder how has the whole "using the code repository data we were supposedly preserving to train AI models" thing not resulted in larger outrage. I have heard about AI training on open source code without permission, but I haven't heard about SWH being involved in all that.
Yeah! it completely undermines anything they say about their noble mission.
I worry that people are already desensitized to the idea that the generative AI people will just steal everything and build a plagiarism machine out of it.
But we've caught them doing crimes and publicly writing down the crimes they are doing, and they are on the back foot. They were not prepared for even the small number of takedown notices they are getting. This is our chance.