You’re saying this like users of github copilot are out of the eq

The mafia used to steal dresses from New York garment factory delivery trucks and hawk them door to door in poorer neighbourhoods. The users (poorer households) definitely got value out of this by being able to obtain dresses they could not afford, but doesn't make a case for what the mafia was doing was right.

I feel pretty strongly that getting rid of copilot will slow down progress at a massive scale. Not only by affecting users who are getting a huge benefit from it, but by setting a precedence in how you can train AI

So ignoring licenses is perfectly fine as long as you do it:

a) at scale

and

b) make some other population happy

In other words, piracy should be perfectly fine, too, right? After all there are a huge number of users who benefit from it?

I’d rephrase this as “open source is open source”