mcc@mcc@mastodon.social
Several people sent me this: Github is no longer an independent company; rather as of today Github is under the AI team. As far as I'm concerned, this is an open admission the function of Github is not to host source code, but rather as an intake for Microsoft to harvest source code to train their AI.
https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition
I guess it always seemed unlikely MS would've paid all that money to altruistically host the open source community. "Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks…"
SonstHarmlos@SonstHarmlos@sueden.social
@mcc@mastodon.social It’s not about the source code alone (they can crawl it elsewhere), but about building a toolchain that many OS projects will become dependent on (with GitHub actions, Copilot and many more “AI” tools in the future)