> The comparison to the Google Books antitrust falls down completely, Google had a dominant position because it had the resources to scan all books. Anyone can build a collection of almost all open source code.
Copying a file is not the same thing as "scanning" a book. To scan you first need to get your hands on the book (the download part) and then use industrial scanners to scan them. So apple-apple comparison here is scanning <-> training & scanned collection of books <-> trained model, and finally the portals to the loot: Google Books <~> Github+VSC.
Not everyone has the resources to actually process -- that is train the 'model' -- using the publicly available 'data'. Most also don't also own Github and VSC platforms to field their model. In fact, is anyone other than microsoft in a position to both scrape OSS, train a coding AI, and then include that tool in dominant software development platforms?
Copying a file is not the same thing as "scanning" a book. To scan you first need to get your hands on the book (the download part) and then use industrial scanners to scan them. So apple-apple comparison here is scanning <-> training & scanned collection of books <-> trained model, and finally the portals to the loot: Google Books <~> Github+VSC.
Not everyone has the resources to actually process -- that is train the 'model' -- using the publicly available 'data'. Most also don't also own Github and VSC platforms to field their model. In fact, is anyone other than microsoft in a position to both scrape OSS, train a coding AI, and then include that tool in dominant software development platforms?