As with so much of the content in Scholarly Kitchen, the author has an axe to grind (in this case, he is a managing director of the Copyright Clearance Center). But the case raised is an important one, as GitHub and Microsoft are being sued for using open source software (through a process of text and data mining, machine learning, and AI training (TDM)) to train its commercial software authoring AI called Copilot, allegedly in violation of the licenses governing the original code uploaded to GitHub. The issue is presented as a dispute about attribution ("I have long wondered, however, about the interplay between the attribution requirement (i.e., the 'BY' in CC BY) and TDM," Kaufman writes) but it doesn't really, and indeed, doesn't related to Creative Commons at all, since the Creative Commons website "recommends and uses free and open source software licenses for software." I would rank this troll of an article as: not helpful.
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