Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoMicrosoft completes Activision Blizzard acquisition, Call of Duty now part of Xboxwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up180arrow-down10
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minus-squaretaanegl@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 year agoThey also use GitHub to hover up code and resell it as AI… and it's only a question of time before they do a rugpull. Make no mistake, they bought both for access to the data and use it daily to upend other competitors. Remember: embrace, expand, extinguish…
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year ago They also use GitHub to hover up code and resell it as AI Microsoft's not the only company doing this. Pretty much all code-focused AI models are based on Github data. Remember: embrace, expand, extinguish… This may have been common in the 90s, but I'm not sure it's still relevant. Do you have any examples of Microsoft doing this in the past 10 years?
minus-squareChinzon@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoRegardless at the end of the day microsoft is a business. By that fact alone their decisions are dependent on what is best for the company. If and when this deviates from what is best for the consumers, we will learn to regret the acquisition
They also use GitHub to hover up code and resell it as AI… and it's only a question of time before they do a rugpull.
Make no mistake, they bought both for access to the data and use it daily to upend other competitors.
Remember: embrace, expand, extinguish…
Microsoft's not the only company doing this. Pretty much all code-focused AI models are based on Github data.
This may have been common in the 90s, but I'm not sure it's still relevant. Do you have any examples of Microsoft doing this in the past 10 years?
Regardless at the end of the day microsoft is a business. By that fact alone their decisions are dependent on what is best for the company. If and when this deviates from what is best for the consumers, we will learn to regret the acquisition