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[โ€“] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My best guess about their purchase is that they wanted to do a bunch of copyright infringement of code hosted on GitHub to train their language models. Are you thinking there's also a motivation to get free dev work another way, too?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We could seize the means of production