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Fine, but what happens if Copilot is so successful that it ends up actively harming the very projects that it requires for training material? If you value Copilot then you should be concerned about that, even if you don't care at all about any ethical considerations.

Seems very similar to a "tragedy of the commons" type of situation.



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