#Microsoft sent an email to everyone saying they're listening to people now and they will definitely not pushing AI to everything anymore.
Also Microsoft enabled #github to collect all your "inputs, outputs and associated context to train and improve AI models". This new tickbox is enabled by default, even if you explicitly disabled Copilot before.
Actions speak louder than words.
You can disable the option at https://github.com/settings/copilot/features
@harrysintonen
*puts on tinfoil hat*
Why does this give me the vibes of "well, yelp, we already did the training on your data, and now we just try to manufacture a legal ground to do so, so we can use your consent as a legal defense in ongoing and future lawsuits".
Anyone believing these fashs should get their heads examined.
@david_chisnall They announced this policy change on 25th March 2026 and it comes into effect 24th April 2026.
Note that this change doesn't apply to Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users.
@harrysintonen @david_chisnall The email I received was pretty explicit that it's interactions with the slop that will be used to train and that if you previously disabled all activity feeding it then it also applies here, and mine remains disabled.
From April 24 onward, your interactions with GitHub Copilotāincluding inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated contextāmay be used to train and enhance AI models unless you opt out.
If you previously opted out of the setting allowing GitHub to collect this data for product improvements, your preference has been retainedā your choice is preserved, and your data will not be used for training unless you opt in.
I went there recently to turn this stuff off and it was enabled just now so š¤·āāļø
@harrysintonen
Had no idea: job forces Microsoft on us. Ugh. Thanks so much for the heads-up!
When the fossil fuel industry orders up an attack on the literacy levels of an electorate, there are no half-measures.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/
De-education, orchestrated by billionaires, takes many forms.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/10/16/koch-network-says-it-wants-remake-public-education-that-means-destroying-it-says-author-new-book-billionaire-brothers/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_A._Freeman_(economist)
AI & a neofeudalist ideology
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/26/ai-dark-ages-enlightenment
https://www.aiu.edu/blog/technofeudalism-the-natural-successor-to-late-capitalism/
Attacks on women's employment & education continue unabated.
https://www.tpr.org/podcast/the-source/2025-12-17/nursing-no-longer-considered-a-professional-degree-by-trump-administration
Koch Network & Rockbridge Network fund research into immortality for the 1%
Can you imagine the harms & hate mongering of an immortal Charles Koch, #PrinceBonesaw, Putin, Xi, Larry Ellison, Elon Musk, Tim Dunn, or Peter Thiel?
Charles Koch, like Bradley before him & the 60 year war on voting rights, already has plans to rule from the grave for decades to come.
https://popular.info/p/charles-kochs-5-billion-tax-loophole
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AI is another way the Epstein Class seeks immortal rule by the 1%.
Imagine the perpetual evil of an immortal Peter Thiel, Stephen Miller or Trump, the Qrazies.
Imagine a deathless rogue AI polluting information access for decades to come.
https://www.openpr.com/news/4438399/digital-immortality-market-next-big-thing-major-giants-openai
https://theweek.com/science/the-billionaire-led-quest-for-immortality
While AI enthusiasts envision digital immortality and human-machine mergers, Peter Thiel calls that vision āpathetically little.ā In a recent podcast, he suggested AI might spark economic growth but fall short of ending innovation stagnation. For Thiel, the real danger isnt AI taking overāits that without it, society may unravel from sheer technological inertia and lack of bold ambition.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/03/tech-oligarchs-musk
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/silicon-valley-artificial-intelligence/
Or evil ideas like Andreessen, Buchanan, Powell, & Andrew Mellon lasting forever, instead of fading into obscurity.
Paul Krugman warns of the consequences of zombie economic ideology.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/attack-of-the-zombie-tariffs
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/opinion/gop-economic-policy.html
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-with-paul-krugman-about-the
https://www.econlib.org/immortality-the-meaning-of-buchanan-life/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/05/01/immortality-gilgamesh-bezos-thiel/
https://qz.com/1578796/why-silicon-valley-titans-are-obsessed-with-immortality
https://time.com/7289667/mountainhead-inspiration-elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-peter-thiel/
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Tech feudalism is a plan for making inequality intergenerational for the 99%. Again.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/larry_ellison_wants_all_data/
https://www.techpolicy.press/digital-eugenics-and-the-extinction-of-humanity/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/05/billionaires-dream-immortality-healthcare
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03790-2
https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-billionaires-trying-to-hack-longevity-and-live-forever-2025-9
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to-inject-himself-with-young-peoples-blood
@rrb @Npars01 @harrysintonen
I'm skeptical about the validity of diagnosing people based on historical records... Honestly, I think it's a lot simpler than that. It's just junkie shit.
Still, worth a read.
I'm also really amused about all this rich asshole critical writing coming from Rich Asshole Digest.
@TheGreatLlama @Npars01 @harrysintonen I did not notice the article saying "being a psychopath is a bad thing."
You may want to read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Psychopath_Test
(I like all things Jon Ronson).
In it, Ronson discusses psychopathy with the investor "Chainsaw Al." For "Chainsaw Al" psychopathy personality traits are 100% positive.
I think for CEOs, a psychopathy diagnosis would be a badge of honor. "Empathetic is pathetic with a prefix."
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