As of April 24 you’ll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out

  • fonix232@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    Yay, it’s not enough that most companies store highly confidential code on GitHub, now we will let a PUBLIC agent be trained on them.

    Wonder how long it will take for people to find ways around guardrails and have the model essentially copy the entire codebase of a specific company with a simple prompt.

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      2 days ago

      Do note that GitHub explicitly excludes those with an Enterprise (or other corporate) plan for precisely those reasons.

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        2 days ago

        They do so now, but here’s an update. What’s the chance for a few years to reach another one?:
        - “To keep up with global changes, we enabled Copilot for everyone, but there’s still an option to opt-out! Plan Pro and up offers such an option just you decide on it! Meanwhile, we hope Copilot will help everyone for free, and with whole 10 tokens we gift you right now!”