My code is shared under a license (MIT) that mandates attribution.
That’s all I ask — if you use my code, give me credit.
Stealing my code to train your bot — which will replicate portions verbatim! — is no different whatsoever than the casual plagiarist that copies and pastes a novel snippet manually.
Its absolutely my legal and ethical prerogative to complain about people stealing my code by failing to respect the license under which it was freely provided.
It does not matter what the internal representation is. What matters is that Microsoft is selling a tool which reproduces non-public domain works while claiming to grant the user ownership of the output.
That’s all I ask — if you use my code, give me credit.
Stealing my code to train your bot — which will replicate portions verbatim! — is no different whatsoever than the casual plagiarist that copies and pastes a novel snippet manually.
Its absolutely my legal and ethical prerogative to complain about people stealing my code by failing to respect the license under which it was freely provided.