Hello. This is Matthew Butterick . I’m a writer, designer, programmer, and lawyer. In November 2022, I teamed up with the amazingly excellent class-action litigators Joseph Saveri , Cadio Zirpoli , and Travis Manfredi at the Joseph Saveri Law Firm to file a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot for its “unprecedented open-source software piracy”. (That lawsuit is still in progress .)
Since then, we’ve heard from people all over the world—especially writers, artists, programmers, and other creators—who are concerned about AI systems being trained on vast amounts of copyrighted work with no consent, no credit, and no compensation.
Matthew Butterick