At some point AI might get good enough to write whatever is missing from that thing. Seems like they have the ability to wait it out.
At some point AI might get good enough to write whatever is missing from that thing. Seems like they have the ability to wait it out.
Maybe, maybe not, but one thing is for certain: you can't seem to escape conversation about AI regardless which post you open on HN!
ReactOS requires all contributors to affirm that legally they have not used or seen any leaked Windows source code. This is to avoid any hints of copyright violation. While AI may be capable of writing a new driver or fixing bugs, a developer using AI can’t affirm that the model hasn’t seen/trained on any leaked source code. So AI submissions would very likely be denied.
Oh? Because Copilot might have trained on code it shouldn't have?
Assuming a ReactOS developer used Microsoft / Github Copilot to work on this codebase, then if Microsoft attempts to sue (themselves?) over their own Copilot tool injecting their own copyrighted code into a user's codebase, then that would be next-level irony right there.
I would chip in my $100 to fund whatever side of that legal battle is necessary just so I could see that case be argued in court.
"Assuming a ReactOS developer used Microsoft / Github Copilot to work on this codebase"
No need to assume. It's a certainty: https://github.com/reactos/reactos/pull/8516
"if Microsoft attempts to sue (themselves?) over their own Copilot tool injecting their own copyrighted code into a user's codebase"
Such an attempt can't make sense, given that the model used by ReactOS is in Microsoft's control and thus Microsoft alone is the one responsible for the model's behavior. They won't sue, thus much is clear.
> that would be next-level irony
More like end of Copilot.