AI6YR Ben1d ago

"GitHub’s Copilot will use you as AI training data, but you can opt out"

"...if you’ve used the code completion in Visual Studio Code, asked Copilot a question on the GitHub website, or used another related AI feature, your interactions and code snippets could be harvested...."

https://www.howtogeek.com/githubs-copilot-will-use-you-as-ai-training-data-but-you-can-opt-out/

#ai #microsoft #copilot

GitHub’s Copilot will use you as AI training data, but you can opt out

That includes the Copilot features in Visual Studio Code.

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Show threadYou S Blues1d ago
@ai6yr I’ve assumed all along that ALL the code stored in GitHub has been used to train their LLM. Does anyone believe that is not the case?
Show threadMike Sheward1d ago
@patmikemid @ai6yr it was always the case because early versions of copilot would happily suggest other peoples api keys etc if they had been accidentally committed
Show threadAI6YR Ben1d ago
@SecureOwl @patmikemid LOL there are so many keys in github. I imagine people are already automatically scraping them for nefarious purposes.
Show threadJ4ck

@ai6yr @SecureOwl @patmikemid

furiously writes new rules to always discard API keys when it pushes

Mar 26 at 3:55pmWeb