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Excellent clarification. I suspect this is at a natural Schelling point: don't say much; because more answers would only lead to more questions. The trade secre

• theptip 3y ago
  To expand upon his first paragraph: > People are worried that anything they say to ChatGPT could be memorized by it and spat out to other users. People are concerned that anything they store in a private repository on GitHub might be used as training data for future versions of Copilot Individuals care because if they disclose highly personal secrets or mundane private information (eg health status, PII like address, tastes/preferences) then those could easily be disclosed later. Companies care for more obvious/less speculative reasons; both the trade secret version of the individual concerns above, but also strategically, in that many companies don’t want to aid their competitors by training OpenAI/Copilot how to write code for their domain. (Obviously what you really want is to fine-tune GPT-4 on your code and be able to trust that they aren’t going to use that for training future models.) My gut feel is that they aren’t saying anything because they are doing grey area stuff pushing the boundaries of “fair use” and plan to ask forgiveness later, which will be easier to do when they have demonstrated massive levels of utility & everyone is benefitting from their model.