Companies commonly share their code with SAAS providers. Typically they'll have a contract to prevent usage otherwise.

why not? OpenAI won't be stupid to look at my code and be that vulnerable legally. It ain't worth it.

They literally scraped half of youtube, made a library to extract the audio and released it as whisper.

Of _course_ they are training on your shit.

thats publicly accessible shit. my code is trade secret and IP. I would litigate that shit if a line I wrote ends up in public model, easiest money to be made.

> my code is trade secret and IP

Which is the same law that protects "publicly accessible shit".

In the same way that you can't legally just rip MP3s off the internet[1], or copy movies and distribute them.

[1] unless you're rich.

you will litigate nothing, and if you do you'll be dismissed anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shira_Perlmutter#Firing

For 99% of companies, their code is worthless to anyone but them.

For copying the product / service yes it is not worth much .

However for people trying to compromise your system access to your code can be a valuable asset .The worth of that could be well beyond just enterprise value of the organization , it could people’s lives or bring down critical infrastructure.

You don’t just have access to code you created and have complete control to. Organizations have vendors providing code(drivers , libraries…) with narrow licenses that prohibit sharing or leaking in anyway. So this type of leak can open you to a lot of liability.

If that was true, hardly any company would be opposed to open sourcing their code base.

It is a cost benefit trade off, as with all things. Benefits look pretty good.

The cost of sharing your code is unknown, though.

Under what circumstances would that cost be high? Is OpenAI going to rip off your app? Why would they waste a second on that when there are better models to be built?

Cursor has enterprise mode which forces a data privacy feature.

So only in "enterprise mode", huh. Interesting, thanks.