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tl;dr Bing indexed and cached a public repository, then made it available to its AI chat. Later, the repository author switched the repository to private and un
by prosim 2y ago
tl;dr Bing indexed and cached a public repository, then made it available to its AI chat. Later, the repository author switched the repository to private and understood how the internet works. And the story gets only better as the author is the founder of a “cybersecurity” company.
- daeken 2y agoI'm baffled. There isn't even the seed of a story here, just someone not understanding that if you put data out there, the data is [checks notes] out there.
- dathinab 2y agothere are also the various fundamental security issues GitHub has where making a repo private (and a few other cases e.g. related to forks) comitts/content _which was never public_ (e.g. pushed after it was made private) are publicly available.
- whalesalad 2y agotechcrunch has never been good in the journalistic integrity department, it's a tech tabloid.