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When it comes to the most useful AI-assisted programming tools at the moment, GitHub Copilot must be one of them.
However, many developers have always had certain concerns about using GitHub Copilot in a production environment. After all, this tool is trained based on millions of open source code libraries on the GitHub platform as basic data. If issues such as code copyright are involved during the use of the code suggestions provided by it, there will be constant troubles in the future.
In order to reduce the concerns of developers and enterprises, Microsoft today issued a major announcement stating that if customers are sued for copyright infringement when using Copilot-related services, Microsoft will bear the risk of potential legal liability.
This wave of domineering copyright commitments has not only made everyone more favorable to Microsoft, but also allowed authors, artists, and developers to use Copilot to reduce their worries.
Microsoft promises: Use commercial Copilot services without worrying about the risk of lawsuits
Notably, Microsoft said, “This new commitment extends our existing intellectual property indemnification support to commercial Copilot services and builds on our previous commitments to AI customers. Specifically, if a third-party We will defend and pay the amount of any adverse judgment or settlement against a commercial customer brought against a copyright infringement lawsuit arising out of the use of Microsoft's Copilot or the output it generates, as long as the customer used the security protections and content filters built into our products. "
original intention
Microsoft also explained the original intention of making this commitment from three dimensions:
First, Microsoft has adopted a charging policy for commercial customers to use Copilot. If their use causes legal-related issues, Microsoft should treat the issue as its own problem, not the customer's problem.
Second, Microsoft understands the concerns of copyright owners. Even if existing copyright laws are clear, generative AI raises new public policy issues and highlights multiple public goals. Based on this, Microsoft believes that the world needs artificial intelligence to promote the spread of knowledge and help solve major social problems. However, it is crucial for copyright owners to retain their rights under copyright law and receive healthy returns for their works. Microsoft will also ensure that content used for training and underlying AI models is not locked into the hands of one or a few companies to stifle competition and innovation.
Third, Microsoft has established safeguards to prevent the possibility that the output of generative tools may infringe copyrighted material to respect the copyright of authors. In response, Microsoft said it has integrated filters and other technologies aimed at reducing the possibility of Copilot exporting infringing content. These measures are based on extensive security protections such as classifiers, meta-hints, content filtering, as well as operational monitoring and abuse detection, including detection of potential infringements of third-party content.
Have you used the Copilot feature?
As the AIGC tool gradually matures, Microsoft has now integrated Copilot functions into many of Microsoft's enterprise products. In addition to the GitHub Copilot mentioned at the beginning of the article, it has also integrated it into the paid version of Bing Chat Enterprise and Microsoft 365. Copilot, Windows Copilot, Dynamics 365 Copilot, Copilot in Power BI, Microsoft Security Copilot, Copilot in Viva Sales, Copilot in Power Platform.
However, as this feature becomes more and more widespread, Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI have previously faced multiple lawsuits, accusing Copilot of repeatedly providing copyrighted code without giving the creator credit. Some developers even initiated "Please do not upload on GitHub " My Code " call.
Now that Microsoft has made a new Copilot copyright commitment this time, it not only stands in front of commercial customers and blocks risks, but this move also helps it further promote commercial products.
As netizens commented, "This move by Microsoft is very smart. In essence, they are putting a huge bullseye on their back to deal with any lawsuits that may arise. The idea is that they have enough resources to challenge them (and they are not wrong). Judging from the development trends of artificial intelligence, I believe we will see some landmark cases soon. To develop this market as quickly as possible and become its center, this Very much in Microsoft's interest. This removes one of the major barriers to adoption of generated code by smaller companies: "If the code generated by this product is copyrighted, will I be sued?" "
Based on this, have you ever used the Copilot function? Welcome to participate in the "2023 AI Developer Ecosystem Questionnaire" initiated by CSDN and share the latest status of your use of AI tools!
