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They're getting desperate for real intelligence. I guess that's what happens when you don't have any of your own. (lemmy.ca)
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"Paid collaboration" my ass. More like, let me pay you a pittance and sell your knowledge for 100x.

A LinkedIn message saying "Hello Brian. This is a paid collaboration. We acquire private, non-open-source legacy code repositories with full commit history and PRs from running or closed projects for AI development. NDA & compliance ensured."
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[–] 4 points 6 days ago (1 child)

It is possible that publicly available code has now became so much overrun with AI code that they are going for older private repos.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    it is, but the question stays - is growing their training dataset by 10% going to make such significant difference that they are willing to actually pay money for it instead of stealing it?

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