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After Xbox and Windows, now GITHUB is in crisis, "failing me, every single day, and it is personal"
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Google Voice was also a service designed to gather training data for speech to text / text to speech services at Google. That’s why it was free. The advent of LLMs just gave it something else to plug the data into. The Microslopening of GitHub, at its core, had similar motivations. Having effectively full backend visibility of all content on the (at the time) centralized service that damn near everyone who publicized their code was using to publicize their code was a valuable business proposition even before they shoved it all in to a training set.
We're talking about using code to train models which wasn't a thing until LLMs were able to generate code which was after they bought GitHub. I'm pretty sure in 2018 they weren't looking at GitHub as source of training data. It was a way to get developers to use their tools. Everyone was using Github and MS wanted to market their products to them. First Azure, now Copilot.