Microsoft’s GitHub next month plans to begin using customer interaction data – “specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context” – to train its AI models.

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    3 hours ago

    The code locker’s revised policy applies to Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ customers, as of April 24. Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users are exempt thanks to the terms of their contracts. Students and teachers who access Copilot will also be spared.

    All of the people in this thread are mad because they use slop code generation and now their slop is being used to train the slop generators.

    If they can take an entire repo because a contribution was tainted, that’s wrong. But otherwise I don’t care because it’s normal to use usage metrics to improve software and most importantly I don’t use AI so I don’t have anything for them to take.

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      As someone who uses the slop machine, completely agree, it might help improve them further and if you don’t want to use it, move to forgejo or similar (I did that too) and if you still want AI help, try learning how to host your own locally if your GPU can swing it.