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Has Copilot been trained on private repos as well? If so, it means that you wouldn't find them by a search, but they would still be revealed by the A.I.
by henearkr 5y ago
Has Copilot been trained on private repos as well?
If so, it means that you wouldn't find them by a search, but they would still be revealed by the A.I.
- the8472 5y agoThe question is easily answered by checking their FAQ: > What data has GitHub Copilot been trained on? > GitHub Copilot is powered by OpenAI Codex, a new AI system created by OpenAI. It has been trained on a selection of English language and source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub.
- henearkr 5y agoThanks and sorry to be so lazy (facepalm)...
- intricatedetail 5y agoWho can you verify it is true?
- mrfusion 5y agoWe trust corporations to tell us the truth every day. What do you think the news is.
- na85 5y agoEverybody knows the news can be charitably described as inaccurate. Sure, Microsoft Marketing Department says it was trained on public code. The PM probably told them it was. Was it actually trained on public code only?
- paavohtl 5y agoI really don't think that's realistic. They would get sued by every single one of their major customers for leaking confidential information.
- Paradigma11 5y agoBecause it would be easy to show if there was a counterexample.
- karmasimida 5y agoYou'd surprised how many people are using GitHub without any privacy consideration. Any free text generation AI service has the same weakness, that you can't control what your model would spill out.
- that_guy_iain 5y agoIt's such an issue that I believe AWS scans every commit pushed for secrets and disables them. I know because I accidentally pushed a secret myself. Mistakes like that can happen super easily when it's a simple project and you've not setup all your things correctly.
- dolmen 5y agohttps://docs.github.com/en/code-security/secret-security/about-secret-scanning https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/secret-security/abo...
- gitgud 5y agoHmm, well they definitely crawl private repos for security vulnerabilities, you need to opt-out if you don't want them to... So it's not too far-fetched, that they'd train AI on private repos data too...