A judge has partially dismissed a billion-dollar lawsuit against GitHub, OpenAI and Microsoft for allegedly illegally using intellectual property to train AI software "GitHub Copilot." 😮 This is an important victory for large tech companies and the generative AI industry, which are currently facing a number of similar lawsuits.

The plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI "scraped" GitHub and used code snippets created by people to train GitHub Copilot without permission, compensation or attribution. However, the judge rejected these claims because the plaintiffs "failed to prove that their code was identically reproduced."

The implications of this decision for Microsoft, OpenAI and GitHub are not yet clear, but it could lead to an expansion of their activities in the field of AI code generation.