Email from GitHub:

"We’re updating how GitHub uses data to improve AI-powered coding tools. From April 24 onward, your interactions with GitHub Copilot—including inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context—may be used to train and enhance AI models unless you opt out."

Yikes! What an invasive and unwanted feature, even if I opt out (which I have).

Looking more and more like I will end up in Codeberg (https://codeberg.org/) sooner than I thought.

Codeberg.org

Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

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@hectorjcorrea I recently got very frustrated by a (consultant) saying that "AI hoovering up your data" is a "misconception" when what she should've said was "training models is expensive and not being done in real time" because her next slide absolutely accounted for ... these companies are totally hoovering up your data, they're just spacing out training. 🙃 🫠
@platypus it’s a freaking race to the bottom 🚮🔥