Couldn't it happen more subtly, without having the code lying around for long? The model could be doing online-learning (ML term) and only then they discard cod

Couldn't it happen more subtly, without having the code lying around for long? The model could be doing online-learning (ML term) and only then they discard code that they get send. This means your code could appear in other people's completions/suggestions, without it having to lie anywhere. It is basically learned into the model. The code could appear almost or even completely verbatim on someone else's machine, possibly working for a competitor. Even that it is your code would not be obvious, because MS could claim, that Copilot merely accidentally constructed the same code from other learned code. Not sure that this is how the model works, but it is conceivable.