I'm not going to reinvent the wheel here when people more invested in the topic than myself, including the Software Freedom Conservancy, have written detailed papers showcasing different perspectives on the legal and moral implications of Copilot and its business model. There's also currently a class-action lawsuit against GitHub for the service.
aes_256
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Copilot was trained on copylefted code while itself being closed. What was brought to attention by @[email protected] isn't efficacy, but Microsoft's lack of ethics and social responsibility when it comes to their bottom line.
fyi Google Maps is very much not ad-free
The country codes are an ISO standard. IANA uses these for country TLDs, they don't set the standard.