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I wonder if there's any potential for Copilot to suggest malicious code because it's been trained on an open source projects containing intentionally malicious

I wonder if there's any potential for Copilot to suggest malicious code because it's been trained on an open source projects containing intentionally malicious code.

napolux 5y ago
or broken code :D
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- ukoki 5y ago
  The averageRuntimeInSeconds example does not check for division by zero so it creates broken code at least 20% of the time based on the examples on the homepage :)
  - napolux 5y ago
    nothing more than what I was expecting :D
akersten 5y ago
Maybe not malicious per se, but certainly I'd be concerned about seemingly-correct but actually-wrong code being suggested. Considering how often the top StackOverflow answer is slightly wrong or how often antipatterns crop up across various projects, I'm sure the training data is nowhere near "perfect code" - implying the output cannot be perfect either.
dgb23 5y ago
Since it is per line I highly doubt it. I think of it as intellisense+. You select suggestions that you would have written anyway.