Has Copilot been trained on private repos as well?
If so, it means that you wouldn't find them by a search, but they would still be revealed by the A.I.
If so, it means that you wouldn't find them by a search, but they would still be revealed by the A.I.
> What data has GitHub Copilot been trained on?
> GitHub Copilot is powered by OpenAI Codex, a new AI system created by OpenAI. It has been trained on a selection of English language and source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub.
Sure, Microsoft Marketing Department says it was trained on public code. The PM probably told them it was.
Was it actually trained on public code only?
So it's not too far-fetched, that they'd train AI on private repos data too...
Any free text generation AI service has the same weakness, that you can't control what your model would spill out.
I know because I accidentally pushed a secret myself. Mistakes like that can happen super easily when it's a simple project and you've not setup all your things correctly.