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> The copilot team rushed to slap a copyright filter on top to keep these verbatim examples from showing up, and now claims they never happen. More than that:

> The copilot team rushed to slap a copyright filter on top to keep these verbatim examples from showing up, and now claims they never happen. More than that: the fact that they claimed it wasn't possible before adding the filter, to filter out the thing that said wasn't possible. This doesn't help me trust anything else they might say or have already said. My take on that was always: if it isn't possible, then why are MS not training the AIs on their internal code (like that for Office, in the case of MS with their copilot product) as well as public code? There must be good examples for it to learn from in there, unless of course they thing public code is massively better than their internal works.

Aeolun 2y ago
How do you know they aren’t training it on their internal code? Since you really need to work hard to make the AI spit out anything verbatim, and you have no knowledge of their internal code, how could you ever prove or deny it?
- dspillett 2y ago
  > How do you know they aren’t training it on their internal code? Because if they were, they would have said. It would be an excellent answer to the concerns being discussed here: “we are so sure that there is nothing to worry about in this regard, that we are using our own code as well as the stuff we've schlepped from github and other public sources”.