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Sorry for the basic question, but the code one builds on this platform is saved to githubs servers?

• k__ 5y ago
  yes
• rvz 5y ago
  Anything pasted or typed into that Copilot editor is sent to GitHub as 'telemetry'. > In order to generate suggestions, GitHub Copilot transmits part of the file you are editing to the service. So Yes.
  • astrange 5y ago
    That's not telemetry, it's the prompt to the model to generate the rest of the text. I would assume it's not saved.
    • onionisafruit 5y ago
      I wouldn't think to call that telemetry either, but it is addressed in this doc about telemetry: https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/telemetry-terms#additional-telemetry https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/telemetry-terms#ad...
• Hamuko 5y ago
  Don't know about saved, but definitely sent. I guess one risk after knowing that Github regards all source code regardless of its license to be fair game for training Copilot is that you probably can't know for sure that your new code is not being used to teach the model more.
  • onionisafruit 5y ago
    It's clear the author of this article had access to the code that triggered the copilot suggestions. They also say this was from an internal trial of copilot, so it might be that these trial users were told their code could be seen by their coworkers.
• bri3d 5y ago
  Yes - to me, this is a much more obvious hazard than the copyright arguments back and forth around the training data. There's no way any reasonable corporate legal or risk department should or would allow this plug-in to be installed on their developers' computers, for this reason alone. I am surprised this is not being talked about more, given the massive conversation around the regurgitation / rote learning arguments.