GitCode, a git-hosting website operated Chongqing Open-Source Co-Creation Technology Co Ltd and with technical support from CSDN and Huawei Cloud.
It is being reported that many users’ repository are being cloned and re-hosted on GitCode without explicit authorization.
There is also a thread on Ycombinator (archived link)
Cloned even?
Maybe they were open source projects?
If the license of the project isn’t being respected then this is a problem.
I’m not disagreeing, but can anyone really be surprised? IP theft is Chinese policy 101.
GitHub owner Microsoft would never engage in IP theft of source code. They leave that to OpenAI and then rebrand it as GitHub Copilot.
Training an AI on something doesn’t involve copying it.