
The complaint argues that the defendants have violated the legal rights of a vast number of creators who posted code under open source licences on GitHub. Last November, a class action was filed in San Francisco against GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI on behalf of GitHub users.

However, it has also had its fair share of controversy, which stems from GitHub’s use of code hosted on GitHub repositories to train and develop Copilot’s coding skills. GitHub Copilot can provide developers with improved code suggestions or add new code blocks. Hannah McCarthy takes a legal look at using Generative AI to create and improve programme code in this excerpt from one of our recent blog articles:ĬhatGPT is not the first AI tool to offer a coding solution. However, before we can herald in a new era of AI-assisted working practices, we need to consider legal questions around AI-generated work.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) products are creating incredible solutions to our modern-day problems.
