Microsoft and GitHub ask court to scrap lawsuit over AI-powered CoPilot

(CN) - Attorneys for Microsoft, GitHub and the artificial intelligence research laboratory OpenAI asked a federal judge to dismiss a class action filed on behalf of four unnamed coders over the paid service CoPilot, which uses AI to suggest code to its users.

Owned by Microsoft, GitHub is a site that hosts open-source computer code. In much the same way that Creative Commons allows photos to be shared