It wouldnt be _that_ surprising since they committed widespread copyright violations building the models, plus the recent Apple IP theft...
replyDisclosing private repos against the owner's intent is a much more immediate and significant business risk than violating the license of open source code.
replyMaybe that shouldn't be the case, but it is.
This speaks to OpenAI's approach to things. But it doesn't speak to Microsoft and Microsoft would need to provide the access.
replythis might be relevant about microsoft.
replyFederal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway:
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-c...
They were caught stealing Apple trade secrets, dude. Nothing is beneath them.
replyNothing is beneath Altman, maybe, but Satya isn’t that dumb. MSFT cares about OAI but giving access to private data and trade secrets voluntarily would be catastrophic for them.
replyDoesn’t feel like the type of mistake Satya would make.
The AI systems ingest tons of copyrighted data and that is stealing/theft(or so we peasants were told). It’s not like they don’t know they are doing. It looks like MSFT doesnt care that much either.
replyHow did book publishers figure out ai stole from them? Can people use a similar way to figure out if their private repos have become part of the training corpus?
replyWell let’s just say it’s not that hard to see that:
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/studio-ghibli-openai-s...
replyNote that everything GPT knows (I.e news etc) is actually from real news websites that never gave GPT rights to use their content. In the pure “American way” OpenAI closed some deals when threatened with lawsuits but of course unless you have the political connections or financials to fight trillion dollars companies stop worrying about your private repo. If it’s in the “cloud” it’s already public just not for everybody.
I could see there being different rules for enterprise accounts.
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