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.
The real issue here isn’t just about “poisoning” their data. It’s that people don’t actually know how their contributions get scraped and repurposed.
I’m working on something called The Zeitgeist Experiment that maps public opinion by having people respond to questions via email, then using AI to rank responses and synthesize key ideas. The goal is transparency about how AI processes human input—showing people what actually gets used, not hiding it in some TOS.
GitHub’s new policy will make things worse. Users will be even less aware their code is going into models they never agreed to train on. The default should be opt-in, not opt-out after the fact.
For no apparent reason:
Are there any good alternatives for gh-pages dor a super lazy/simple website? I’ve been meaning to actually use one of my domains for a personal website and pointing at which project is on which code repo site would be a good idea. But… I need that page to be hosted by one of them.
In a move that should shock nobody. I have not made a new repo there for a year, and started to migrate to Codeberg.
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.
'We don’t know how to write code, so we will steal yours via our sloppy AI"
There’s a reason present day “AI-in-everything” Microsoft bought a code hosting company.
Microslop at it again…
God Im feeling justified in my life decisions lately.
I’m glad they did this because it finally gave me the push to move all my stuff to Codeberg.
I’ve been planning to move to codeberg for a while. Guess this sets the deadline.
Don’t forget to poison your data on your way out!
Microslop, once again proving why that’s their name.
I self-host Gitea! Not your server, not your data.
GitHub : the best advertisement for CodeBerg out there !
My powershell scripts are poison enough lol
My Github Actions configurations will bankrupt entire continents
