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Does GitHub use code from private repos for AI training?
by snowstormsun 3y ago
Does GitHub use code from private repos for AI training?
- Dwedit 3y ago"Human Eyes will never see the contents of your private repositories" I think that's pretty clear then.
- JohnFen 3y agoThat doesn't sound so clear. If the code is used to train AI, there's a nonzero chance that human eyes will see it. But if they're not going to use the code to train AI, then why not just say so?
- lionkor 3y agoAI might see it, and then AI might replicate the same code, at which point they consider it "not your code"
- snowstormsun 3y agoOh yeah, that says it all. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36444839 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36444839
- prosim 3y agoYour private code is not used for any user other than you: https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/copilot/overview-of-github-copilot/about-github-copilot-for-individuals#will-my-private-code-be-shared-with-other-users https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/copilot/o...
- snowstormsun 3y agoThanks, but this reference doesn't exactly answer the original question. > Will my private code be shared with other users? > No. We follow responsible practices in accordance with our Privacy Statement to ensure that your code snippets will not be used as suggested code for other users of GitHub Copilot. That just says they prevent snippets from being "suggested" to users of copilot, but not that snippets (from private repos) are not used to train copilot. It could also be they use private repos for training, but have some mechanism to make sure the output for the user is not too close to the original private code. Limiting the scope to "suggested code" here bypasses any information about if it's used for training or not.