Mark Ripley4d ago
PsychicParrot 🦜 (Jeff) 😷
GitHub, man. What a bunch of bastards they are automatically opting everyone in to their shitty ai training from your *private* repos now. Such a dirty, scammy thing to do. Damn GriftHub and Microslops. Damn them into the abyss.
Mar 27 at 11:22amWeb
Show threadDaniel Gibson5d ago

@psychicparrot42
they have always trained on public repos.

it's just (supposedly) new that they're also training on copilot input/output/contexts, which may include parts of private repos

Show threadPsychicParrot 🦜 (Jeff) 😷5d ago
@Doomed_Daniel When Grifthub/ Microslops says ‘may include parts of your private repos’ I take that to mean ‘we’re stealing everything you have’ ..!!
Show threadDaniel Gibson5d ago
@psychicparrot42 as far as I understand this is specific to copilot usage - I think it's only fair if they steal your data when you vibecode
Show threadLaura5d ago
@Doomed_Daniel @psychicparrot42 That's why I think this is a tempest in a teapot. Only people who actually use Slopilot are affected by this particular thing, and only the data that they willingly send to it, i.e., someone else's computer.
Show threadPsychicParrot 🦜 (Jeff) 😷5d ago
@landelare @Doomed_Daniel BUT anything that gets people away from these shitty services is a good thing, so let the storm rage I say! Let's make sure everyone understands their work is being stolen by these companies and that they need to find better alternatives!
Show threadtoerror5d ago
@psychicparrot42 @Doomed_Daniel I'd be willing to bet that they and all their competitors were doing it anyway, and the introduction of the "opt-out" is not there because they wanted to opt everyone in, but because they needed a way to market the idea that it is optional to companies who are doubtless starting to realise that all their R&D is being transferred to their competitors via the copyright obfuscation machines. How else can they compete with claude outside of being a corporate box tick
Show threadPsychicParrot 🦜 (Jeff) 😷5d ago
@toerror @Doomed_Daniel I reckon you’re probably right!
Show threadBlerkotron5d ago
@psychicparrot42 I moved all my stuff to Codeberg a while back. Forgot to delete my GitHub account, but I shall remedy that today.
Show threadDavid Thomson5d ago
@psychicparrot42 been looking at setting up a (paid) Forgejo service here in Blighty to give folk an option that isn’t GH or Gitlab, but ensuring backups is the bit I need to dig into more, a lot of pressure in there to not lose stuff! Also not sure how much interest there is in that, but I know Codeberg doesn’t suit everyone due to its terms.
Show threadPsychicParrot 🦜 (Jeff) 😷5d ago
@dwlt For now, I've stopped using any external source control and set up my own server in the basement. It's working out really well, but I do worry about not having an external backup sometimes.
Show threadDavid Thomson4d ago
@psychicparrot42 Wise in all aspects! Would you be up for being a guinea pig, I’m thinking setting something up that’s locked down to start with and you could mirror the repo?